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...classroom controlled by a teacher who, quite literally, wears her politics on her sleeve. It is in the pedagogical interest of our schools to have classrooms stay places where all students and ideas are tolerated. While banning buttons and posters will not bring an end to teacher bias, prohibiting teachers from dictating the political tenor of a class in this singularly blatant way is an important part of promoting a culture of neutrality. This does not mean that public schools should be places devoid of dialogue and debate. Rather, educational institutions should do their best to foster discussion of important...
Published by The Times of London and The Guardian, this system emphasizes peer review...though it has been criticized for its bias towards places where The Times and The Guardian are read. Understandable...
There is no question that racial bias is a powerful force to overcome and a slippery one to quantify. But with Obama propelled by panic over shrinking nest eggs and the wilting Dow, the Bradley effect may be this fall's paper tiger: an old theory re-heated by the media because there's not much left to talk about...
...platforms were largely different from their national counterparts’—though both include balancing the budget. But, she added, many of the non-policy issues that have been in focus leading up to next month’s election, such as race, gender, and media bias, also played into Stuyvesant’s student government race.Vanessa Charubhumi, who was Zisiadis’s running mate and is now a freshman at Johns Hopkins, said that she saw how race was a factor in the campaign but that gender was less of an issue.REFLECTIONS OF AN EX-CANDIDATETwo...
...nation’s most prestigious university is no doubt lamentable—especially so as the current Core, with its multicultural distribution requirements, transitions into a general education program that leaves no place for dead languages in its “globalized” curriculum.Despite the anti-classical bias of today’s educators, a rudimentary knowledge in both Latin and Greek language and literature would well serve the cause of liberal learning and help produce more cosmopolitan and more thoroughly well-rounded graduates.While both Greek and Latin are “dead” languages, their usefulness...