Not that or probably made much of a difference but shout out to the folks who made the case for work requirements and the places that platformed these claims based on the thinnest evidence. Gotta hear both sides, right?
The important thing to understand is this not a case of Senator holding out to protect his state’s interests. The expanded CTC helps everywhere but esp in Manchin’s own West Virginia donmoynihan.substack.com/p/save-the-chi…
Imposing both work requirements and such a low cap means both that this will be a small program, vulnerable to attack, and simultaneously difficult to access for the poorest individuals.
Apart from local coverage, and specialist higher ed outlets, I've only seen one national story about the politicization of tenure in Georgia. Hard not to conclude that the discourse doesn't really care about structural protections of academic freedom. nytimes.com/2021/10/13/us/…
Please correct me if I've missed major stories about GA tenure. And I'm not saying that what happened in Yale was ok, or shouldn't be covered. I just think one of these things is a much bigger deal than the other, and its not the thing getting attention.
Putting educators in the absurd position where they are wondering about both siding the Holocaust is the predictable outcome of not just anti-CRT laws, but a political environment of constant surveillance and punishment.
New from me, please share. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-lessons-…
The Southlake story may be an outlier, but it's instructive in a number of respects. First, it shows the value of sustained investigative journalism in a community about the effects of an attack on educational institutions.
Hat tip to @Mike_Hixenbaugh and @ahylton26
As a public management professor, I can point to research about how school leadership offers a buffer to the political environmental to provide stability for teachers. These actions improve school performance, but seem less possible in a hostile political environment.
Given the story about teachers in Texas being told to remove books about the Holocaust if they can't find pro-Holocaust texts, re-upping this overview about how the anti-CRT moral panic is making teaching an impossible job. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/making-publi…
Southlake already stood out. After a viral video of students laughing while shouting the N word at a party, students pushed for diversity training. The backlash was so strong that the school board was voted out.
(200K was spent by their opponents). nbcnews.com/news/us-news/b…
A teacher at Southlake was reprimanded after she gave an anti-racist book to a student. The school district cleared her of wrongdoing, but the school board punished her anyway. The parents who made the complaint had donated to school board members.
Bit of a gap here between what Ted Cruz said and what happened.
The effort to make this a lightening rod illustrates both a) the bad faith use of free speech to claim conservative victimhood, and b) the indifference to public health. madison.com/wsj/news/local…
YAF, the group organizers are claiming discrimination based on ideology. Evidence of double standard: two events on *other campuses*, an event at the Tommy Thompson center where a visiting speaker ignored the rules, and one where GOP students ignored the rules.
Madison has had real problems with surges of COVID because of students not following health guidelines. After Cruz moved his event off campus, his audience made a point of going maskless and ignoring local government health guidelines.
Tenure is the bedrock of academic freedom, the basic structural protection that makes speech freer on campus than almost anywhere else. The people more focused on a single cancelled talk than the plan to erode tenure protections in GA are telling on themselves.
As @TheFIREorg notes here, the structure of post-tenure review in Georgia invites the potential for political control of process thefire.org/fire-to-georgi…
Something very on brand about a conservative policy center writing about the dangers of discussions of systemic racism in schools and universities, using a prop photo of MLK, while the actual organization is, uh, less than diverse. mspolicy.org/our-story/ mspolicy.org/wp-content/upl…
Not a critical race theorist, but if I was, I would write a paper about the use of MLK's image and selective use of his quotes. Symbolic representation is not a substitute for action, but its especially hypocritical from those opposing MLK's goals. colorlines.com/articles/marti…
Per this report, alerting students to the well-established fact that Blacks and Latinos systematically face greater discrimination in labor markets is CRT, and must be suppressed. Never mind whether its true or not. pnas.org/content/114/41…