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The average impact of corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training is zero and some evidence suggests that the impact can become negative if the training is mandated. [...] Our intuition for how to decrease race and gender disparities in the...

The evidence is clear: diversity-related training is generally ineffective, often causes blowback, and comes at expense of other priorities.

the literature showing why diversity training fails shows ways that the training could be reimagined to better serve its purposes.

Far from promoting racial cohesion, hyper-political HR activists have normalised racism in the workplace

An award-winning journalist shows how workplace diversity initiatives have turned into a profoundly misguided industry--and have done little to bring equality to America's major industries and institutions.

Where affirmative action was about compensatory justice, diversity is meant to be a shared benefit. But does the rationale carry weight?

Let's have a really uncomfortable dialogue about retention and graduation in higher education.

The nation is currently engulfed in a debate about critical race theory, a social science that emerged in the mid-1970s that analyzes how racism has been used as a system to disempower people of color. 

We examine charter schools across the quality spectrum in order to learn which practices separate high-achieving from low-achieving schools. An expansive data collection and analysis project in New York City charter schools yielded an index of five educational practices that explains nearly half...

This study examines the impact on student achievement of implementing a bundle of best practices from high-performing charter schools into low-performing, traditional public schools in Houston, Texas using a school-level randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental comparisons

In the 1960s Blacks and Whites chose relatively similar first names for their children. The patterns in the data appear most consistent with a model in which the rise of the Black Power movement influenced how Blacks perceived their identities. We find, however, no negative relationship between...

Acting white was once a label used by scholars, writing in obscure journals, to characterize academically inclined, but allegedly snobbish, minority students who were shunned by their peers.

Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century by Roland G. Fryer Jr.. Published in volume 21, issue 2, pages 71-90 of Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2007, Abstract: This paper studies marriages across black, white, and Asian racial lines....

Finding guidance in the words of two great American Adamses

Don't let woke dogma revive Reconstruction-era racism

Two workshops are planned this summer for a discussion with Jason Littlefield and Erec Smith about the approach to race

Society is organizing itself in a way that’s impairing humankind’s social, emotional, and psychological well-being. It's cultivating the innate human capacities for prejudice, aggression, and cruelty in order to pursue a collectivist political ideology. It is being reinforced through Diversity,...

Before 1517, there was a single worldview and practice within the Christian faith (Catholicism). For over a1,000 years, this ideology extended it’s influence throughout the world; geographically…

In 1882 Nietzsche proclaimed, “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?”. Nietzsche’s proclamation was not a slander…

May 11, 2021 Keri interviews Jason Littlefield. Jason is an educator passionate about the health and well-being of individuals and the preservation/restoration of human liberalism. He is the executive director of EmpowerED Pathways (which you can find at empoweredpathways.org) and author of the...

Othersuch Constructs @benjaminboyce Olympia, WA. Producing media that deepens discourse.

I spoke with Jason Littlefield about his work with EmpowerEd Pathways, and how SEL was taken over by woke ideology. The effects that woke SEL and curriculum is harming children and the attacks on Enlightenment values.
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Celebrate a great American on this Fourth of July

In this episode, Joe chats with Jake Mackey about the woke takeover over academia; the importance of preserving and studying the art and ideas of the past; h...