The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: OfTheCross on September 20, 2019, 07:20:57 pm
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The Education Department has ordered Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to remake the Middle East studies program run jointly by the two schools after concluding that it was offering students a biased curriculum that, among other complaints, did not present enough “positive†imagery of Judaism and Christianity in the region.
In a rare instance of federal intervention in the details of higher education academic content, the department asserted that the universities’ Middle East program violated the standards of a federal program that awards funding to international studies and foreign language programs. The inquiry was part of a far-reaching investigation into the program by the department, which under Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, has become increasingly aggressive in going after perceived anti-Israel bias in higher education.
In this case, the department homed in on what officials saw as a program that focused on the region’s Muslim population at the expense of its religious minorities. In the North Carolina program’s outreach to elementary and secondary school students, the department said, there was “a considerable emphasis placed on the understanding the positive aspects of Islam, while there is an absolute absence of any similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity, Judaism or any other religion or belief system in the Middle East.â€
Too few of the Duke-U.N.C. programs focused on “the historic discrimination faced by, and current circumstances of, religious minorities in the Middle East, including Christians, Jews, Baha’is, Yazidis, Kurds, Druze and others,†the department said.
nytimes (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/us/politics/anti-israel-bias-higher-education.html)
Should the Federal Government just come up with a National Curriculum?
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Should the Federal Government just come up with a National Curriculum?
Assuming those institutions of higher indoctrination receive federal money....
Solution would be to not take any federal money. Then they can go full communist.
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Assuming those institutions of higher indoctrination receive federal money....
Solution would be to not take any federal money. Then they can go full communist.
That's a good point. I imagine that would mean that the Fed can step into any almost University. Even many private ones receive federal funds via Pell Grants