Harvard's Ed Doctoral Students Protest Dumping of Social Justice Scholar
When Gary Orfield moved the Civil Rights Project from Harvard to UCLA, that move acknowledged a major shift that had been going on for a long time at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Simply put, Harvard's GSE is more aligned today with William Bennett than Harvard alum, William James.
I congratulate the brave doctoral students who have begun an increasingly vocal protest to call for a return to research on social concerns at Harvard, rather than a laser focus on economic ones. Doctoral students are also calling for a return to human research using qualitative methods rather than the abstracted empiricism used to dote on the dumbest of data, test scores. But even more troubling to future scholars at Harvard is the dumping of scholars committed to social justice research agendas. The latest denial of tenure to Mark Warren was the
I congratulate the brave doctoral students who have begun an increasingly vocal protest to call for a return to research on social concerns at Harvard, rather than a laser focus on economic ones. Doctoral students are also calling for a return to human research using qualitative methods rather than the abstracted empiricism used to dote on the dumbest of data, test scores. But even more troubling to future scholars at Harvard is the dumping of scholars committed to social justice research agendas. The latest denial of tenure to Mark Warren was the
