All Posts Tagged With: "Foundation for Individual Rights in Education"
Cultural Competence and Your Child
A buzz term is appearing with increased frequency in the literature and programs surrounding education at both the public-school and university levels: cultural competence. Parents would do well to ask, “What is it, and how could it affect my children?” The term “cultural competence” first arose in connection with health care, where a standard definition is: [...]
1Sep2007 | Wendy McElroy | 2 comments | ContinuedGender Madness on Columbia’s Campus
Since the beginning of the fall 2000 academic year, a precedent-setting “Sexual Misconduct Policy” has been in place at Columbia University, one of the nation’s most prominent universities. The policy is a new maneuver in the politically correct gender crusade that has swept academia in the last two decades. For example, it establishes Columbia as [...]
1Mar2001 | Wendy McElroy | 0 comments | Continued-
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