Via Tyler Cowen, : In April of this year, I witnessed something on the Stanford campus that will be seared into my memory forever: a student on a bicycle, wearing flip-flops, AirPods in ear, going the wrong way through a roundabout in an active construction zone, with no helmet. But like any good follower of science, the student was wearing a disposable blue face mask -- for safety, I guess. I...
Good Epoch Times article about my case
Unfortunately it’s behind a paywall. Here are some excerpts: Having a dissenting view within the prevailing orthodoxies of many universities today can lead to “a death by a thousand cuts,” according to a lawyer who specializes in constitutional law. Samantha Harris, with Allen Harris Law in Connecticut, represents Stephen Porter, a professor at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Porter...
Data on college students’ support for controversial speakers
As you might suspect, it’s pretty low, especially for conservative speakers. From a national survey by FIRE, the question is “Student groups often invite speakers to campus to express their views on a range of topics Regardless of your own views on the topic, would you support or oppose your school ALLOWING a speaker on campus who promotes the following idea:”
Ioannidis: COVID hysteria is ruining science
Ioannidis is a fascinating guy: years ago he showed that half of all medical research is wrong. You can read more about him in this Atlantic profile; here is his latest: Nevertheless, despite the cynical realization that the methodological norms of science had been neglected (or perhaps because of this realization), voices struggling for more communalism, universalism, disinterestedness, and...
The public vastly underestimates spending on students and teacher salaries
From the 2021 EdNext poll: people underestimate per pupil spending by a whopping 42% and teacher salaries by 34%.
Woke Joke Part 1: When the woke mob comes for you, stand up and fight back!
I am a political conservative who has no problem taking a stand and expressing my opinion, which is why I have, for years now, been targeted by the woke mob at NC State. As a result, I just filed a lawsuit against the university in federal district court, alleging that faculty and administrators violated my rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. I’ve hired a top-notch attorney...
Most hate crimes are fake
Mr. Reilly is a professor of political science at Kentucky State University, and his interest in hate crimes dates to his graduate-school days, when he became aware of several widely reported incidents in the vicinity of his hometown that turned out to be fake. In 2012 a popular gay bar in suburban Chicago was destroyed by fire, and the owner cited homophobia as the reason. The same year, black...
Does teacher training actually work? Apparently not
From American Economic Journal: Applied Economics: Does Teacher Training Actually Work? Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Evaluation of a National Teacher Training Program Despite massive investments in teacher professional development (PD) programs in developing countries, there is little evidence on their effectiveness. We present results of a large-scale, randomized evaluation of a...
Ed researchers: dodgeball is a tool of oppression
No word on whether wrenches are also tools of oppression. When the Canadian Society for the Study of Education meets in Vancouver at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, a trio of education theorists will argue that dodgeball is not only problematic, in the modern sense of displaying hierarchies of privilege based on athletic skill, but that it is outright “miseducative.” Dodgeball...
Emergency financial aid does not seem to matter
Community college completion rates are extremely low, especially among low-income students. One potential explanation is that low-income students have limited capacity to overcome financial shocks, such as large medical, legal, or car repair bills. Some programs offer “emergency financial assistance” (EFA) to prevent these events from curtailing educational progress. We test the...