See this post as yet another to rebut conservative misinformation posted here lately denigrating education and young people.
Stanford-led study highlights the importance of letting kids take the lead
Research led by Stanford education professor Jelena Obradovic finds that too much parental involvement when children are focused on an activity can undermine behavioral development.
By Krysten Crawford March 11, 2021
Parents today often look for teachable moments – and opportunities abound. When reading a book with a child, for example, it might mean discussing story plots with him. If she isn’t allowed to play a videogame, it means explaining why.
There’s good reason for this: Research has shown that engaged parenting helps children build cognitive and emotional skills.
Too much parental direction, however, can sometimes be counterproductive, according to a new study led by Jelena Obradovic, an associate professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education, published March 11 in the Journal of Family Psychology.
He Fuels the Right’s Cultural Fires (and Spreads Them to Florida)
Christopher Rufo helped make critical race theory a conservative rallying cry. Now he sees L.G.B.T.Q. issues as an even more potent line of attack.
Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist and writer, has helped inspire Republican messaging and bills on hot-button issues. Chona Kasinger for The New York Times
By Trip Gabriel April 24, 2022 [...] Stop W.O.K.E. Act, which bars teaching in workplaces and schools that anyone is inherently biased or privileged because of race or sex. [...] Critics of Mr. Rufo, and of the broader right-wing push on L.G.B.T.Q. issues, say the attacks represent a new era of moral panic, one with echoes of slanders from decades ago that gay teachers were a threat to children. Some champions of Florida’s law, including Christina Pushaw, Mr. DeSantis’s press secretary, have labeled their opponents “groomers” — adults who want to sexually pursue children. [...] Donald Moynihan, a professor of public policy at Georgetown University, said conservatives had falsely and intentionally linked child sex predators with opponents of the Florida law. Mr. Rufo, he said, had provided fuel for their arguments.
...creating these very negative brands and then associating things that might have much more popular support with those brands to put people on the defensive,” Dr. Moynihan said. “That’s the through line you see between the C.R.T. stuff and the current ‘groomer’ effort.” [...] After Mr. Rufo released the Disney employee videos, he shared mug shots on Twitter of Disney workers who had been charged in child sexual abuse cases over the years, based in part on CNN reporting from 2014.
He failed to note, in an article he wrote about the arrests for City Journal, a publication of the Manhattan Institute, that none of the cases in the CNN report involved children at Disney’s parks. Nor did he include Disney’s response to CNN that the arrests were “one one-hundredth of 1 percent of the 300,000 people we have employed during this time period.” [...] ********* “It gives him this veneer of being a conservative scholar,” Mr. Sykes said. “He basically says, ‘Anything you don’t like about race becomes C.R.T.’ Now, all of your anxieties about sexuality or gender become grooming.” [...] Critical race theory — and a broader “parents’ rights” movement — helped drive Republican victories in school board elections and the Virginia governor’s race last year. Seventeen states have passed laws or issued orders to restrict critical race theory or limit how public-school teachers can discuss racism and sexism, according to Education Week. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/us/politics/christopher-rufo-crt-lgbtq-florida.html
Right-wing culture warriors develop formula to manipulate soft targets in high education
"No, Professors Are Not Brainwashing Their Students Robert Reich Jan 2, 2024 [...]But facts, I have been reliably informed, don’t care about your feelings. And in this particular instance, the facts are clear. Yes, it is true that liberals dominate the academy. And yes, I agree that this is a problem. But the worst fears of conservatives — that liberal faculty are brainwashing their students — are simply not true. And we can prove it."
Related: Claudine Gay is ousted at Harvard It sets a dangerous precedent of big-money intrusion [...]I don’t know enough to address the charges of plagiarism against her, but it’s worth noting that all of them apparently came from the same source, via The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative online journal. [,,,]Kenneth Griffin — who earned billions on Wall Street and has donated more than half a billion dollars to Harvard ($300 million this year alone, enough to get Harvard to name its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences after him) — was particularly enraged by a statement made by several Harvard student organizations shortly after the October 7 Hamas attack, holding Israel responsible. P - Griffin called the head of the Harvard Corporation, Penny Pritzker, urging that Gay take a more forceful stand against these students. P - William Ackman, another Harvard alumnus and major donor, who heads the giant hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, demanded that Harvard release a list of members of the student organizations behind the letter. P - In a string of posts on X (formerly known as Twitter) Ackman said he wanted to ensure that he and other CEOs did not “inadvertently hire any of their members.” https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173548338 Reich Jan 2, 2024
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Jan 3, 2024 #Harvard #highereducation #rightwing Ali Velshi looks at the tactics used by right-wing activist Christopher Rufo to attack diversity, equity and inclusion programs and equity philosophy generally in higher education, and the weakness he is able to exploit in mainstream media organizations and university boards to manufacture political pressure.
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