Search Results for “restorative justice” – The College Fix

Four 2024 education predictions by The Fix’s veteran teacher

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 22:42:41 +0000

Teachers love this past week. It’s Christmas break (or “winter” break for the politically correct) after all, which allows them to 1) catch up on much needed sleep, and 2) catch up on much needed sleep. Well, the teachers who care and know what they’re doing, at any rate. Although it’s been a number of years now, I remember the need for this break quite well. My wife and several former…

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School district ousts principal for holding racially exclusive student assembly – but why??

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 19:33:51 +0000

An elementary school in Florida recently hired a new principal to replace one who was suspended and eventually resigned at the beginning of the school year. The latter, Donelle Evensen, had helped organized a racially exclusive assembly for black fourth and fifth graders to encourage them to raise their state test scores. Evensen is white. Anthony Hines, the now-former fifth-grade facilitator…

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Minneapolis teams up with NYU law school to ‘reimagine’ policing

Jack Applewhite - University of Georgia — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 05:08:33 +0000

UPDATED Project wants to end ‘policing as a one-size-fits-all answer’ Minneapolis is shelling out $1,000,000 to a New York University School of Law group to help it implement an “alternatives” to policing plan. The Minneapolis City Council recently approved a partnership with NYU Law’s Reimagining Public Safety, a program of its Policing Project. The initiative wants to “incorporate non…

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UCSD’s Marxist-inspired Che Café accused of being haven for sexual predators

Jennifer Kabbany - Fix Editor — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 06:13:03 +0000

A student-run, Marxist-inspired venue at UC San Diego called the Che Café Collective has been hit with allegations that it welcomes sexual predators, creating an unsafe space for regular patrons, the Guardian student newspaper reported. The “radical” venue, which hosts performances like open mic nights and musical gigs, as well as houses a vegan deli, has served as ground zero for several sexual…

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Fed up with horrible student discipline, states bring back suspensions, expulsions

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 00:51:03 +0000

But progressives unhappy As parents and teachers are getting more and more disgusted with student discipline — or the lack thereof — states are responding. A new law in Kentucky, for example, allows for students to be suspended for profanity, “willful disobedience or defiance of the authority of the teachers or administrators,” “defacing school property” and alcohol and drug use…

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Harvard Kennedy School hosts ‘restorative justice’ advocate who wants prisons abolished

College Fix Staff — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 23:27:35 +0000

This past Wednesday, Harvard’s Kennedy School hosted Danielle Sered, a “restorative justice” advocate who wants to do away with the nation’s prisons. Sered (pictured) is the executive director of Common Justice which, according to its website, “develops and advances solutions to violence that transform the lives of those harmed and foster racial equity without relying on incarceration.

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Columbia student groups back Palestinians, demand school cut ties with Israel

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:09:54 +0000

‘Israel does not have the right to defend its occupation’ A coalition of student groups at Columbia University recently issued a statement in support of the Palestinians in their renewed assault against Israel. The historically ignorant and hyperbolic Palestine Solidarity Groups at Columbia proclamation, obtained by NRO’s Zach Kessel and titled “Oppression Breeds Resistance…

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University of Iowa offers virtual simulation role-playing DEI trainings

Parker Miller - Grove City College — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 04:04:31 +0000

Trainings aim to teach employees how to embrace diversity The University of Iowa offers its faculty and staff an online, role-playing simulation training designed to instill ideas and strategies for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion on campus. The “Cultivating Inclusive Communities” program, launched last November, works to help employees develop “awareness, knowledge, skills…

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College student who’s never taught a day blames SEXISM for teacher shortage

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 12:32:26 +0000

What’s one of the first things you think of when you hear there’s a teacher shortage? Low pay? Too much progressive BS? Student behavior? If you’re a liberal university student paper opinions writer looking for a topic you might want to consider sexism. Y’know, take something you likely learned in a “studies” course and throw it out there as some cunning insight. George Washington University’…

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Columbia professor wants more than $2 trillion in education reparations for blacks

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 13:19:04 +0000

$16 billion for the ‘unnecessary and violent presence’ of school cops The education professor who believes the American education system engages in the “spirit murder” of black children says the price tag for this “hurt” is more than … two trillion dollars. The “award-winning” Bettina Love (pictured), now at Columbia University’s Teachers College, says her generation — “the Black children of…

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