Thread by @glukianoff

NEW: “Catching Up With ‘Coddling’”! @AdGo & I theorize how ideological litmus tests in education schools may have contributed to the changing ideas about #socialjustice we saw arriving on campus around 2013. 1/10

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This is the FOURTEENTH part in the series where we revisit the topics in @JonHaidt & my 2018 book, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” with new data, developments, & caveats. 2/10

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By “changing ideas about social justice,” we mean things like definitions of “equity” that are focused on equality of outcomes, at the expense of things like procedural or substantive fairness. 3/10

By 2002, an accreditor of over 600 education schools adopted a requirement that students be evaluated for their commitments to “social justice” and “diversity.” 4/10

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Member institutions, like @TeachersCollege, followed suit. As @kcjohnson9 documented, the inclusion of these requirements by the accreditor was quickly reflected in the policies of the schools. 5/10

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ZERO TWEET: Stay after this intermission to see how the NY Times made me a HuffPost blogger, or switch reels to see the trouble with the expansion of Title IX into speech policing. 0/10

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WAAAY back, just a few months before we saw the trainwreck known as Spider-Man 3, I wrote an OpEd critical of the imposition of an ideological litmus test: 6/10

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That piece had originally been submitted to & accepted by the #nytimes. But a junior editor had accepted it. When the senior editor returned, I was told it *might* run… sometime in the next nine months. I licked my wounds, gave up & instead submitted it to the @chronicle. 7/10

BUT the junior editor remembered what had happened & at his very next position at @HuffPost, invited me to blog there. Ever wonder how I ended up a HuffPo writer for a decade? That’s the secret story of how that I have never told before. 8/10

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To its credit, the accreditor (now part of @caepupdates) did reform its requirements to clarify that embracing its ideology was not a requirement of entering the profession. But the schools went the other direction, as we’ll see ... 9/10

Next in CUWC, we go deeper into what education schools look like today, & what that means for K-12 education going forward. See the whole series: 10/10

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BONUS TWEET: Don’t let the ideological litmus test at education schools fool you — the “big middle” of collegiate censorship is apolitical. 11/10

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