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Anshar Seraphim • The Octopus Movement White Paper on Education: Solving the Unsolvable
% Derisible • Theses for 2020
Research justice acts upon a belief that science, reason, empiricism, objectivity, universality, and subjectivity have been overvalued as ways of obtaining knowledge while emotion, experience, traditional narratives and customs, and spiritual beliefs have been undervalued.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
These liberal education reformers were attempting to reconcile what the historian of education David Labaree has called the three competing ideals in American education, each corresponding to a different end goal and a different model of the student subject. The goal of “democratic equality” sees students as citizens, with the role of schools being
... See moreSamuel W. Franklin • The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
Ask any Black student at Princeton or Black students at any peer institution the same, and the odds are quite good that the celebration of their admission was diminished by a claim of unearned benefit. “Affirmative action” is said with a sneer. It is a straw man of the right wing. Because of course college admissions are not an exercise in fairness
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
5 CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND INTERSECTIONALITY
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Seventy percent of community college students in California never complete their programs.
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

Until recently, we simply didn’t know how immense this problem was, or how serious the consequences, unless we had suffered them ourselves. For years, social scientists, journalists, and policymakers all but ignored eviction, making it one of the least studied processes affecting the lives of poor families. But new data and methods have allowed us
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