KC Johnson

KC Johnson is a history professor at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center.

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May 31, 2019

Due Process, DeVos, and the Courts

KC Johnson

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has made restoring campus due process and the presumption of innocence in sexual harassment cases a top priority. DeVos has proposed regulations that use lang......

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June 6, 2017

Forum: Citizenship versus the "New Civics"

Nicholas Capaldi, KC Johnson, Allen Mendenhall, Michael I. Krauss, Harry C. Boyte and William Voegeli

A forum on civics education responding to the NAS report Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics.

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March 28, 2017

Safe Spaces and Defending the Academic Status Quo

KC Johnson

In the Spring 2017 Academic Questions (vol. 30, no. 1), KC Johnson discusses higher education's reluctance to protect free speech and emerge from its ideological cocoon.

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April 10, 2021

On Title IX, Dems Move to Restore Obama-Era Unfairness

KC Johnson

The Biden administration is racing toward reimposing a one-sided Title IX system. History looks unkindly on those who willingly sacrifice the innocent in pursuit of an asserted greater good.

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July 9, 2020

The New Title IX and its Challengers

KC Johnson

The newly issued Title IX regulations, set to take effect on August 14, have faced four primary groups of opponents filing lawsuits. The clock is ticking—will these counter-efforts be enough?

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August 11, 2015

The New History Guidelines are Better

KC Johnson

KC Johnson gives four reasons the revised APUSH standards are an improvement. 

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