The Dish has been considering the topic of college assessments and government rankings of universities. It happens that I am right now writing my dissertation on the Collegiate Learning Assessment and its successor, the Collegiate Learning Assessment+, one of the major competitors in the effort to establish a common test of college student learning. It also […]
Continue reading →There’s a lot not to like about this David Frum piece concern trolling Ta-Nehisi Coates’s reparations essay. For instance, Frum asks as a hypothetical “If African Americans are due payment for slavery and subjugation, what about… Japanese Americans, interned during World War II?,” apparently unaware that we already did that. But here’s one that I […]
Continue reading →This tweet is just one of many. It’s just an example, and not a particularly egregious one, and one with the right intentions at heart. I like Ta-Nehisi Coates’s writing. A lot. And I loved his case for reparations, for a lot of reasons, but mostly because of what it brings to the public consciousness, or […]
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