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Next up for progressives-destroy science
https://www.city-journal.org/html/how-id...15826.html
"Identity politics has engulfed the humanities and social sciences on American campuses; now it is taking over the hard sciences. The STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math—are under attack for being insufficiently “diverse.” The pressure to increase the representation of females, blacks, and Hispanics comes from the federal government, university administrators, and scientific societies themselves. That pressure is changing how science is taught and how scientific qualifications are evaluated. The results will be disastrous for scientific innovation and for American competitiveness.
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scientist at UCLA reports: “All across the country the big question now in STEM is: how can we promote more women and minorities by ‘changing’ (i.e., lowering) the requirements we had previously set for graduate level study?” Mathematical problem-solving is being deemphasized in favor of more qualitative group projects; the pace of undergraduate physics education is being slowed down so that no one gets left behind...."
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05-14-2018 09:41 AM |
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thespiritof1976
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RE: Next up for progressives-destroy science
Then it's no longer called STEM.
It's called STUPID.
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05-14-2018 09:51 AM |
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SuperFlyBCat
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RE: Next up for progressives-destroy science
They never include Asians in the mix as a minority, lol.
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05-14-2018 09:55 AM |
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RE: Next up for progressives-destroy science
(05-14-2018 09:55 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote: They never include Asians in the mix as a minority, lol.
In most US University STEM Departments Asians ARE the majority now. Their repetitive primary and secondary education systems are great for producing human computers.
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05-14-2018 10:12 AM |
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