by Amy E. Slaton | Dec 9, 2015 | Media, Policy
The blunt racism of Antonin Scalia’s statement today recommending that minority students attend “lesser” schools so that they do not feel that they are being “pushed too hard,” is cloaked in false concern. His is not only a deeply racist worldview, demarcating human...
by Amy E. Slaton | Jan 26, 2014 | Higher Ed, Media, Policy
Like many folks who read Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld’s lengthy piece in the NYTimes today, I’m aghast. The piece purports to be a probing and innovative exploration of “success” in America, following the differing fortunes of persons of various ethnic heritages. But...
by Amy E. Slaton | Jun 16, 2013 | Higher Ed, Policy
A compelling piece appeared on the American Physical Society News website a while ago that just came to my attention. (Thank you, Michael Fisher!) Author Casey W. Miller, an associate professor of physics at the University of South Florida, asks the physics...
by Amy E. Slaton | Mar 30, 2013 | Higher Ed, Policy
This week, faculty senate leaders of all three public higher ed systems in California (the community colleges, state colleges, and University of California system) made the bold move jointly to express opposition to a plan that would encourage major growth in massive...
by Amy E. Slaton | Nov 17, 2012 | Higher Ed, Job Creation, Media, Policy
Itching to know which ideas about the economy actually solidified during the recent campaign season? Which ones Obama toted, intact, through the onslaught of right-wing rants about the 47% (according to Romney, people who remain jobless because lazy…or, shiftless AND...
by Amy E. Slaton | Jul 18, 2012 | Higher Ed, Policy
I’m excited about President Obama’s new idea for a billion-dollar STEM “Master Teacher Corps,” announced by the White House this week. I particularly like the idea that localities will choose the recipients of the title and its $20,000 stipend,...
