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"The Moral Bankruptcy Of Charter School Opponents"

School choice definitely seems to be a winning issue for conservatives.

Related: "Policymakers Should Listen to Voters on School Choice".

"Conservative professor mulls defamation suit against Penn for saying she made up black student stats"

She also wants to "defund the Ivies". 

Wouldn't that be a fun fight?

More from Professor Wax: "Penn Law’s Amy Wax on Being Ousted from Her First-Year Class Over Comments on Race, Performance and Bourgeois Values, Attacks on Free Speech, Criticism of Affirmative Action and Diversity, Hard Truths, Anti-Western Colleges".

"The Evidence for Standardized Tests Already Exists"

Prediction: if the Liberals have their way and do away with standardized tests, in about a year or two, they'll discover that admissions are still, or even more, "unfair," and they are not any happier.

"Shit My Reviewer Say"

Usually good for a laugh. (If you're an academic.) This is a recent entry:

 The result does improve the state-of-the-art, but it is not strong enough for acceptance.

"Think Professors Are Liberal? Try School Administrators"

Another reason--not that another one is needed--to increase the teeth to tail ratio in academia.

Intrigued by this phenomenon, I recently surveyed a nationally representative sample of roughly 900 “student-facing” administrators — those whose work concerns the quality and character of a student’s experience on campus. I found that liberal staff members outnumber their conservative counterparts by the astonishing ratio of 12-to-one. Only 6 percent of campus administrators identified as conservative to some degree, while 71 percent classified themselves as liberal or very liberal.

Related: "Good luck, Professor Abrams".

" Answering the Perennial Question: Why Does College Cost So Much?"

Take a wild guess.

"Econ 1 v. the roadblocks"

Professor Gordon agrees with, and expands on, the assertion that "Econ 1 (or Econ 101) is all you really need". (I agree, too.)

He recommends The Economic Way of Thinking, which I also like. And I'll plug Trade-Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social Issues, Second Edition. (It's narrower in scope, but the benefit is a tight focus on a really important idea in economics.

Related, by Paul Rubin: "We Must Teach College Students Basic Economics".

"De Blasio’s war on excellent schools"

Let us hope that this really dopey idea is never implemented.

Related: "NYC’s Doomed Plan to Racially Balance its Schools".

"Even a Billionaire Can’t Get the Public School Monopoly to Work"

Microsoft workers used to say that billg had five brains and each of them was smarter than yours. So this is probably unsurprising:

Bill Gates himself sees the potential of this approach. He has wisely increased funding for public charter schools and for research in other education innovations. If he is looking for learning reforms that are effective, sustainable, and scalable, this is it. The formula for success is: Trust parents; avoid politics.

"The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond"

I thought "respond" was going to mean "refute". But instead it means "You have no idea--they're so right!"

A bit of background here: "An academic hoax to expose a massive academic scam".