Bias Watch DeSantis blasts blue cities over high crime, poor education results Don Irvine June 7, 2023 2024 presidential candidate in the Republican party, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, recently sniped at blue cities for their lackluster record…
Faculty Lounge Johns Hopkins University Students Chain Themselves to Stairs in Campus Building to Protest ICE, Police Accuracy in Academia May 10, 2019 Some Johns Hopkins University students decided to protest the university’s ties to ICE and police officers by chaining themselves to a staircase in an administrative building on-campus.
Perspectives Graduation Rates Are Deceptive Malcolm A. Kline February 16, 2018 And more reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz than the three Rs or even John Dewey.
MLA Remembering Black Lives Matter, Trayvon Martin and Freddie Gray Spencer Irvine February 13, 2017 A panel of college professors memorialized Black Lives Matter and the movement’s icons, Trayvon Martin and Freddie Gray. At the…
Faculty Lounge Baltimore County Public Schools No Longer Grades on Homework, Behavior of Students Spencer Irvine August 24, 2016 You’d think this was a sick practical joke for the county’s schoolteachers, but it isn’t: Under the new system, a…
Faculty Lounge Maryland County School System Bans Use of “Gifted and Talented” Spencer Irvine August 18, 2016 We can’t reward those who work hard and are academically talented, at least that’s the proposal in Baltimore County public…
Book Reviews ‘The War on Cops’ by Heather Mac Donald: A Book Review Spencer Irvine July 20, 2016 In light of the violent Black Lives Matter (BLM) rhetoric, protests and the murder of five Dallas police officers, Heather…
Faculty Lounge To Some Baltimore Students, Dress Code is “Forced Assimilation” Spencer Irvine March 25, 2016 Wait, what? Dress codes impose and force assimilation?
Faculty Lounge Emory University sends Students to Baltimore to Study Racism Spencer Irvine December 28, 2015 Uh, that’s an interesting choice for a student field trip from Atlanta, Georgia to Baltimore, Maryland. Students from Emory University…
Faculty Lounge One Public Charter School in West Baltimore is Trying to Change the Culture Spencer Irvine September 26, 2015 As the Washington Examiner reported, one school is trying to change the education environment in poor, western Baltimore: …the Green…
Perspectives Teaching Moment on Baltimore Missed Malcolm A. Kline June 30, 2015 Here’s what so-called “teachable moments” in academia generally miss—the decade those moments are in. “There is a revolution taking place…
Faculty Lounge Lesson from Freddie Gray: It’s Not About the Money Spencer Irvine May 19, 2015 Good take from Marc Tucker: “David Brooks wrote a column that ran in the New York Times on May 1…
