To understand the intolerant, anti-intellectual attitudes held by many college administrators, it helps to know that most of the ones who worked directly with students got their graduate training from education schools, or “ed schools” as they’re called. These are the schools that have been training and licensing teachers and administrators in the K through 12 school system for the better part of a century.
Unfortunately, ed schools are notorious for their low academic standards and woke politics. Among their many dysfunctional programs, the ones that train school administrators are the very worst. They’re so bad that in 1987, a report by the National Commission on Excellent and Educational Administration recommended that out of the 500 programs in administration 300 of them should be closed—not reformed, but closed . . .
It’s an understatement to say that ed schools ignored this recommendation. Instead of closing programs during the next 20 years, they opened over 100 more and they did absolutely nothing to fix their low quality. Why not? Low-quality programs bring in tuition dollars and they don’t require much in the way of investment.
Here is the mission statement of Boghossian’s Substack, Beyond Woke:
This Substack gives you a front row seat in the culture war. I’m executing a blueprint to push back illiberalism and I’d like you to be directly involved. The blueprint has a two-fold aim: first, reveal the implications of far-left ideological takeover; and second, restore free speech and open inquiry as non-partisan values.
I recently read “1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project” by Peter Wood. Its very relevant to this topic. 1619 is shown to be a bad history, but good propaganda. Well worth reading.