Diversity

Joanne Jacobs

Yale changes admissions, avoids bias lawsuit

Elite colleges have "rolled out new application questions this fall to provide students with opportunities to discuss their racial...

Joanne Jacobs

Universities talk 'diversity,' demand conformity

Requiring would-be professors to swear allegiance to a political ideology is a free-speech violation, charges a lawsuit filed in May....

Joanne Jacobs

Prep disadvantaged kids for Ivy futures

Elite colleges should create and fund middle and high schools to educate disadvantaged students, writes Roland Fryer, a Harvard economics...

Joanne Jacobs

Racial 'gamification' will go on unless students refuse to play

Elite universities reward applicants -- students and job-hunting professors -- who can play racial identity games, writes Tyler Austin...

Joanne Jacobs

Elite Philly school is being 'dismantled' by lottery admissions, say parents

An influx of unprepared students, admitted by a new lottery system, is destroying Philadelphia's top-ranked school, charges a report by...

Joanne Jacobs

1 classroom, 5 achievement levels: The learning chasm

Trying to teach students who are way above and way below grade level in the same classroom puts an impossible burden on teachers, reports...

Joanne Jacobs

Kill-the-Jews joke? Social justice jargon is not 'restorative'

Days after someone wrote "JEWS NOT WELCOME" on the Walt Whitman High sign, two debate-team members at the Bethesda, Maryland school joked...

Joanne Jacobs

School board member tweets: 'Whiteness is so evil'

Tweeting "whiteness is so evil" has proven controversial for Kesha Hamilton, who's on the Jackson (Michigan) school board, reports...

Joanne Jacobs

'Diversity training' costs billions, but does it work?

There's no evidence diversity training works and some evidence it hurts, writes Jesse Singal in a New York Times commentary. The...