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Explore the debate and science of Ethnic Studies.

February 27, 2024

Academia’s Self-Eating Snake

Kali Jerrard

Ethnic studies and educational activism are consuming curricula and the classroom.

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August 10, 2021

Ethnic Studies Takes CA Community Colleges By Storm

David Acevedo

Education in the Golden State has been a roller coaster. In the latest loop-the-loop, the CCC Governing Board is requiring an ethnic studies course for all students seeking an associate's degree.

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March 2, 2021

California Inches Closer to Ethnic Studies Mayhem

David Acevedo

California's Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum is set to be finalized and published on March 31. What will it cost students if it does indeed cross the finish line?

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July 10, 2013

RES Revs 'Em Up

Glenn Ricketts

Race & Ethnicity Studies needn't lead to political activism—it just always seems to.

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September 19, 2012

My Review of Bawer's The Victim's Revolution

George Leef

Bawer has written a terrific exposé of the pseudo-academic fad of "identity studies" courses and programs.

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June 13, 2012

The Trap of Minority Studies Programs

John M. Ellis

CAS President John Ellis discusses the academic weakness and heavy ideological freight in most minority studies programs.

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May 16, 2012

Lacking Critical Scrutiny and Oversight

George Leef

Black Studies programs have not had critical scrutiny and oversight, but that might change.

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January 3, 2011

Arizona Embraces K-12 "Ignorance"

Glenn Ricketts

We thought it was reason to celebrate when Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed HB 2281 into law, mercifully eliminating a Chicano Studies curriculum - La Raza Studies, as it was also called. Today ho......

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November 22, 2010

UCSD Prof Gains Tenure Aiding Illegal Aliens

Mitchell Langbert

This video (h/t The Blaze) excerpts interviews of two UCSD professors, Micha Cardenas and Ricardo Dominguez, who advocate the dissolution of the United States. Professor Dominguez states that he won......

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November 5, 2010

Ethnic Studies Teachers Sue to Reinstate La Raza Programs

Ashley Thorne

Arizona banned La Raza studies courses from its schools earlier this year, but eleven ethnic studies teachers are fighting to bring the radical programs back.

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