Education
The Red Clay Consolidated District must “ensure that all of its students, including Jewish students, can learn safely and without discriminatory harassment in its schools,” said the assistant secretary for civil rights.
That part of the matriculation exam will not be required this academic year.
New data from nonprofit RealityCheck research firm suggests Holocaust education makes people more broadly empathetic • Reportedly a greater focus on teaching about the Shoah in African schools.
“We know it’s not true,” said adjunct professor Amin Husain.
Financial and systems coordinator Gustavo Espada wrote: “I hate Israel and Zionism with a passion.”
Ph.D. candidate Alyiah Gonzales told students that instead of attending her lecture, they should write an essay on “the relationship between writing, power and systems of oppression.”
Jon Lindseth cited the “diminished quality” of the academic institution due to “its disastrous involvement with DEI policies that have infiltrated every part of the university.”
Professor Avinoam Patt said this is “a critical moment in history where serious scholarship and education can make a difference.”
The Senate minority leader expressed alarm at the rise in Holocaust denial among the young.
The U.S. Education Department announced five new probes for “discrimination involving shared ancestry.”
Alan Kadish, the president of Touro University, said: “We just want to make sure that students have a place [where] they feel comfortable.”
Former Harvard president Lawrence Summers wrote that he has lost confidence in the determination of Harvard leadership “to maintain Harvard as a place where Jews and Israelis can flourish.”
