Adam "Ask Me about the Scopes Trial" Laats

Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom

Becoming Right How divergent campus cultures affect conservative college students

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1.) Amy Binder & Kate Wood: Becoming Right. Why do conservatives at college get so weird? They don’t hate elite colleges, but they do get a stalker vibe going.

YouTube video by LynnAndersonVEVO Lynn Anderson - (I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden (Audio) (Pseudo Video)

Now playing on an endless death loop over the White House grounds:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXHs...

The cancel culture panic with Adrian Daub - American Campus Podcast Adrian Daub explains the recent history of the cancel culture moral panic.Adrian Daub. 2024. The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup...

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10. @adriandaub.bsky.social on the Cancel Culture Panic in higher ed (and also his excellent book of the same title that looks at cancel culture globally)

www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education, sh...

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9. Henry Giroux's Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1386-n...

Lower Ed - The New Press "The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students."—The New York Times Book ReviewAs featured on The Daily Show, NPR's Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the "powerful, chilling tale...

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8. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's Lower Ed (and hopefully a new forthcoming edition soon??)

thenewpress.org/books/lower-...

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6. @bradvivian.bsky.social's Campus Misinformation
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The Modern American University Is a Right-Wing Institution Just look at who is really in control.

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7. @asheeshksi.bsky.social's "Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards"
www.teenvogue.com/story/campus...

Opinion | Trump Is Out for Revenge Is the attack on Harvard payback for Bob Jones University?

Maybe we can talk about the ugly history of revenge at the heart of current policy: www.chronicle.com/article/trum...

Sure!

The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education Harvard University Press, 2015 Surprised by all the violence and anger about schools? Don’t be. As long as there have been public schools, they have been central parts of America’s ince…

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5. My own books, Fundamentalist U and The Other School Reformers.

It goes way back. In the 1920s, the Klan tried to make its own “Poor Man’s Harvard.” In the 1930s: the American Legion sent student spies into Columbia.

God and Man at Yale - The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom' - Regnery Publishing Celebrate 70 years of the classic!"For God, for country, and for Yale... in that order," William F. Buckley Jr. wrote as the dedication of his monumental wor...

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4. Buckley’s God & Man at Yale (1951). This bitter adolescent polemic helps us understand the senseless viciousness of today’s attacks. They don’t hate Yale, they yearn to control it with a stalker’s spurned pride.

American Higher Education since World War II A masterful history of the postwar transformation of American higher education

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3. Roger Geiger’s Research & Relevant Knowledge OR American Higher Education since WWII.

Trump can crush universities because they are now built on fed $$.

Resistance from the Right | Lauren Lassabe Shepherd | University of North Carolina Press Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe ...

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2.) @llassabe.bsky.social: Resistance from the Right. There’s nothing new about campus conservatives. They copy the left and yearn for control.

Becoming Right How divergent campus cultures affect conservative college students

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1.) Amy Binder & Kate Wood: Becoming Right. Why do conservatives at college get so weird? They don’t hate elite colleges, but they do get a stalker vibe going.

It continues: Trump v. USA

ICYMI: AFK Edition (8/3) Nothing new to report, but I wouldn't miss this wekly collection for anything.

So much good writing on education this week. @palan57.bsky.social’s roundup:

.600!

Aug. 2, 1924: James Baldwin Born James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York.

"We are living through a very dangerous time. . . The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated." — James Baldwin (born #tdih 1924) "A Talk to Teachers" ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...

Sorry, left out the Gallup/Walton poll link: static.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/c7/bd/97d109...

The polls have been clear for a long time on this one. Big majorities of us like our public schools:

Hard fail for MAGA:
"Defund the Schools" is a losing slogan.

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."

--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

Senators—Including Republicans—Reject All of Trump's Proposed Education Cuts The budget bill could go before the full Senate as early as September.

The people like their public schools.

[gift link]:

A Century of Conflict Over Evolution Education A new book examines the legacy of Tennessee v. Scopes, offering a warning about future litigation over the teaching of evolution in America.

In his review of a new book examining the 100-year legacy of the Scopes “monkey” trial on teaching evolution in public schools, @glennbranch.bsky.social writes that the authors provide an “insightful and detailed legal history,” but finds their argument overly pessimistic:

The White House Announces White House Ballroom Construction to Begin Washington, D.C. — For 150 years, Presidents, Administrations, and White House Staff have longed for a large event space on the White House complex that

I can almost see the new Schlesinger volume on the shelves.

Right next to "Age of Jackson" and "The Crisis of the Old Order: Age of Roosevelt"

Now there's...

"The Orange Man and His Fancy Balls"

Dunno. I couldn't get past the claim that *DEI* was the main enemy of science, and the main thing demoralizing scholars right no.

I can't figure out which line is more gobstopping:

1.) "Discriminatory DEI policies represent a systemic rot that has weakened the public’s trust in science and demoralized a generation of scholars."

-or-

2.) "This isn’t a political stunt or publicity grab."

Trump Has Targeted These Universities. Why?

I know historians aren't good predictors, but this seems like a gimme.

We are mere inches away from the new announcement:

They're going to shift fed research grants to MAGA schools like Liberty and Hillsdale.

It will not end well.