Guardian: It is estimated that 24,000 girls under the age of 15 are at risk of female genital mutilation in the UK.
What’s The Opposite of Diversity?
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education announced a major litigation effort Tuesday against universities that maintain clearly illegal speech codes.
With help from the law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine, FIRE is suing several universities that manifestly and unconstitutionally deprive their students of First Amendment rights.
“Universities’ stubborn refusal to relinquish their speech codes must not be tolerated,” said FIRE President Greg Lukianoff during a press conference.
For now, suits have been filed against Ohio University, Iowa State University, Chicago State University, and Citrus College in California. These universities have all trampled students’ free speech rights, according to FIRE.
Lukianoff explained that FIRE would not hesitate to expand the suits until all universities abandon their speech codes, which were ruled unconstitutional decades ago but have endured at more than 50 percent of colleges, according to the foundation’s research.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m certain they’ll come for the school administrators first.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m converting a bear trap into a giant chastity belt.
The Children Are Are Future
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m repainting the Astrovan in camo.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
Suppose that an authoritarian government decides to embark on a program of curricular reform, with the explicit goal of indoctrinating the nation’s high school students. Suppose that it wants to change the curriculum to teach students that their government is good and trustworthy, that their system is democratic and committed to the rule of law, and that free markets are a big problem.
Will such a government succeed? Or will high school students simply roll their eyes?
Questions of this kind have long been debated, but without the benefit of reliable evidence. New research, from Davide Cantoni of the University of Munich and several co-authors, shows that recent curricular reforms in China, explicitly designed to transform students’ political views, have mostly worked. The findings offer remarkable evidence about the potential influence of the high school curriculum on what students end up thinking — and they give us some important insights into contemporary China as well.
The Children Are Our Future
Actual footage: The 2014 Cross Examination Debate Association’s national championship, at Indiana University.
Via
The Children Are Our Future
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m melting down my silverwear into crucifixes.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer. (h/t Carol)
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
What’s The Opposite of Diversity?
Dartmouth College Has Banned White People From Using The Word ‘Fiesta’
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
University! Two students are suing the University of Hawaii for violating their First Amendment rights after administrator prevented them from distributing copies of the U.S. Constitution…
h/t peterj
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m stringing razor wire along the back fence;
They even marched into a local Boston Pizza restaurant to say the hot lunches it served to the school were wasteful.
At least they’re getting good practice digging through landfills.
What’s The Opposite of Diversity?
University. How do we make sure that in future years ‘we are not as white as we are today?’
h/t Fearless Leader
The Children Are Our Future
Via Jonathan Turley.
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
At UC Santa Barbara, the student Senate recently passed a resolution that calls for mandatory “trigger warnings” — cautions from professors, to be added to their course syllabi, specifying which days’ lectures will include readings or films or discussions that might trigger feelings of emotional or physical distress.
h/t Ottawa MJ
The Start of America’s Generational War
Catherine Rampell has an interesting column comparing what Social Security and Medicare benefits people get compared to what they paid into it:
For Americans who turned 65 in 2010, Medicare benefits will typically amount to two to six times what beneficiaries had paid into the system, depending on their marital and work histories. For example, an average-wage, two-income couple who turned 65 in 2010 paid today’s equivalent of $123,000 into the Medicare system during their working years. They will receive about $385,000 in Medicare benefits over their decades of dotage, even after subtracting out the cost of premiums. For a similar couple that retired 20 years earlier, the comparable numbers were $43,000 paid in vs. $227,000 received. A decent return, no?
The current system is unsustainable and will break. It’s just a matter of ‘when’.