Columbia, Brown, & Penn have settled. Cornell and Harvard are reported to be next. UCLA, Northwestern, George Mason & others may soon follow. Some academics are mystified by why their leaders would settle or attribute it to cowardice. But settling makes sense. Here's why. 🧵1/ 1) They're guilty. The evidence is overwhelming that universities failed to enforce rules to protect Jewish students. The fact that they have been engaging in racial discrimination by granting preferences in admissions and hiring is even more clear. Settling is smart. 2/

Medicine has a serious antisemitism problem. It especially has a problem among doctors, and a lot of that problem is concentrated among doctors educated overseas. @PeerReReview & I examined the profiles of 702 antisemites identified by @StopAntisemites. Here is what we found 🧵1/ Doctors were almost 26 times overrepresented in the list of antisemites relative to their prevalence in the workforce. And half of those Jew-hating doctors received their medical degrees abroad. 2/ tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

The study that claims black doctors save the lives of black babies must be cursed. It's results have been mis-described. It has failed to be replicated by other researchers. And now a FOIA reveals that the authors hid results that undermined their desired "narrative."🧵1/ In a @wsj oped, @tedfrank documented that Justice Jackson incorrectly claimed in her dissent to the SC decision banning affirmative action that this study showed that having a black doctor "doubles" the odds that a black newborn will survive. 2/ wsj.com/opinion/justic…

Last fall I had a piece in @tabletmag on how universities with a critical mass of international students have hosted many more anti-Israel protests than universities where foreign enrollment is more moderate. The article profiled Mahmoud Khalil, who ICE is seeking to deport.🧵1/ At selective universities, about a third of total enrollment comes from abroad. At Columbia it is almost half. Once foreign enrollment reaches a certain level, these universities cease to be American institutions, raising questions about why taxpayers heavily subsidize them. 2/

Over the weekend, the NIH announced that it would be cutting overhead rates on federal research grants from an average of about 60% to 15%. Not surprisingly, there were howls of protest from university staff and their fellow-travelers in the media. 🧵1/ The biggest whopper came from the WashPo with the headline: “NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately.” A more accurate headline would have been, “NIH cuts billions in administrative expenses, allowing more to be spent on biomedical research.” 2/

My new piece in @Telegraph: The @nytimes ran a very negative piece on @umich's DEI efforts. The response to that article by the university's head of DEI proves exactly why DEI is counter-productive. 🧵1/telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/202… The New York Times Magazine just ran a lengthy profile of DEI efforts at the University of Michigan and discovered that, despite an enormous investment, the campus has “become less inclusive”, that “students and faculty members reported a less positive campus climate”, and that “students were less likely to interact with people of a different race or religion or with different politics”. 2/ nytimes.com/2024/10/16/mag…

When @james_d_paul and I first released our @heritage research critical of DEI bureaucracies in 2021, we received a wave of negative reaction. It's gratifying to see our concerns about DEI validated in this excellent @nytimes piece by @nickconfessore 🧵1/ nytimes.com/2024/10/16/mag… We published a series of reports on the issue that became the DEI Trilogy. First was Diversity University, then Equity Elementary, and finally Inclusion Delusion. You can read Diversity University here. 2/ heritage.org/education/repo…

*New Analysis* -- U.S. universities used to admit students from overseas so they could learn about American values and the virtues of our political system and bring that knowledge back to their home countries. We were exporting democracy and freedom, one student at a time. 🧵1/ It’s the other way around now. American students at our top universities are being exposed to a critical mass of foreign students, learning about their values and political systems, and then incorporating these perspectives into our political culture. 2/washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/302264…

Once again, "Science" says general spending increases improve student outcomes despite your lying eyes that see more than a doubling in real spending while test scores have hardly budged. Reading these studies is like watching a magic trick. A 🧵 to find the sleight of hand 1/

https://twitter.com/BarbaraBiasi/status/1747093680190562774

The authors examine school bond referenda comparing test score and housing price outcomes in districts where bonds barely pass to those where they barely fail on the assumption that close passage randomly gives some districts extra spending relative to others. 2/

Princeton professor has a Public Service Announcement:

Here's how to apply double-standards slandering Catholic organizations. 🧵1/

https://twitter.com/eduwonkette_jen/status/1671464300391587840

The rate of sexual misconduct is much higher among public school staff than among Catholic clergy. Every case is a tragedy, but to tar Catholic organizations while ignoring the much larger public school problem is applying a double-standard. 2/

People have accepted without scrutiny @PENamerica's claim that 2,532 books were banned from schools last year, creating alarm about "widespread censorship." We bothered to check those school district libraries & found that the vast majority of these books remain available.🧵1/ School districts often have their card catalogues online. Of the 2,532 books @PENamerica says were banned, 487 were banned only from classrooms and might not be listed in card catalogues. We searched for the other 2,045, finding card catalogues covering 1,868 or 91% of them. 2/

My piece with @JasonBedrick in @NewYorkSun describes how the recent NY court decision was a major victory for Orthodox Jewish Schools - and for religious liberty in education. 🧵 1/ Under pressure from a string of hostile and error-ridden stories in the @nytimes NY has attempted to revive a century-old, largely dormant law that required students who enroll in private schools to be given an education that is “substantially equivalent” to NY’s pub. schools. 2/

My new @Heritage study with @iskingsb & @EF_Institute empirically demonstrates that empowering parents to make more choices in education significantly reduces the average "wokeness" in schools. 1/ Some on the right have expressed concern that school choice won't reduce wokeness because all options will be woke, given how teachers are trained & credentialed, how schools are accredited, etc... They note how woke elite private schools are to illustrate their point. 2/

"It’s Time to Roll Back Campus DEI Bureaucracies" A 🧵on a new piece with @rickhess99 1/ nationalreview.com/2022/09/its-ti… "Unfortunately, in higher education, 'Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)' has taken on an Orwellian aspect — becoming a tool of 'groupthink, censorship, and exclusion.'” 2/

"There are lies, damned lies, and New York Times statistics." @JasonBedrick and I dismantle the anecdotal and distorted empirical case for regulating yeshivas that took the @nytimes 2 years to build. A 🧵 1/ washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-ne… "Are the yeshivas 'flush' with taxpayer dollars? The NYT identified only about $1,000 to $2,000 per pupil in mostly federal funding that it loosely ties to instruction... The NYT omitted any mention [that] New York City public schools spend nearly $31,000 per pupil. 2/

My new study released today by @Heritage finds that easing access to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones has actually increased youth suicide rates, contrary to the claims of the Biden admin, advocates, and flawed prior research. 1/ heritage.org/gender/report/… The new study examines a natural policy experiment that occurred because some states have provisions allowing minors to receive health care without parental consent, at least under some circumstances, while other states do not. 2/