Attention Economy


Wednesday, July 14, 2021

The Progressive/Left-Wing Assault on Academic Merit Harms Asian-Americans

A PTA Purge of Asians
America’s top public high school shows us what discrimination looks like today.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-pta-purge-of-asians-11626128073
 
The purge of Asian American students at Thomas Jefferson High School has begun
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/02/purge-asian-american-students-thomas-jefferson-has-begun/
 
The Left’s War on Gifted Kids
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/06/left-targets-testing-gifted-programs/619315/
David Frum notes:
But as unpopular as “Defund the police” is, local progressive activists have found a cause even more anathema—and are pushing it with even greater vigor. Eighty-three percent of American adults believe that testing is appropriate to determine whether students may enroll in special or honors programs, according to one of the country’s longest-running continuous polls of attitudes toward education.
Yet across the U.S., blue-state educational authorities have turned hostile to academic testing in almost all of its forms.
 
Related:
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2021/05/meritocracy-in-education.html
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2021/06/in-defense-of-meritocracy.html