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The Harvard Graduate School of Education will launch a Twitter feed dubbed “hgse_live” that will cover the Dalai Lama’s talk at Memorial Church this Thursday. The GSE plans to continue using the account for other talks in the future in an...
Further, Durban II did not offer any substantive solutions to the ills of racism. The Outcome Document recognized that combating racism is “of crucial importance…for the promotion of cohesion, but argued that, in order to achieve this “crucial” end...
The other concrete recommendation of the Durban II conference was that states take legal action to combat “xenophobic attitudes towards and negative stereotyping of non-citizens.” Further passages in the document excoriate states that discriminate against immigrants, whether legal or not. This anti-nationalistic...
Therefore, while Durban II may not have been a “hate fest,” it was still deeply flawed. The conference was heated, insulting, and did not engender positive strides toward ending racism. Further, the resolutions adopted were, on the whole, both infeasible and unrealistic. Repressive regimes...
Complaints about the Core and the nascent General Education—its lack of common requirements or a coherent, unifying philosophy—are rehearsed often. And the demise of a potential Great Books track within Gen Ed called further attention to this problem. The prevalence of grade inflation and...