HeyJaredJonathan Zimmerman
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Race, Hannah Gann, and the lies of identity | Jonathan Zimmerman (opens the original)
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Letâs start with the easy part: Philadelphia teacher Hannah Gann should not have pretended to be Black and Palestinian. I cannot â and will not â excuse that. Gann seems to have believed the biggest myth of modern America: that identity is destiny. Your race and ethnicity determine how you think and act. So your membership in a given group gives you a special kind of insight that outsiders can never share. That echoes the fallacy of white racists, the original practitioners of American ide
AI and the illusions of college teaching | Jonathan Zimmerman (opens the original)
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How will artificial intelligence affect student learning on college campuses? We donât know. And hereâs the worst part: We donât want to know. Thatâs because we have never taken teaching â or learning â seriously. We donât prepare future professors for the classroom. And have no real systems for evaluating and rewarding their instruction. So we also donât have good ways to evaluate the gee-whiz rhetoric from the AI industry, which assures us the tool will ârevolutionizeâ lear
Free speech, hypocrisy, and the real âMarxistâ problem at our universities | Jonathan Zimmerman (opens the original)
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Hereâs what you need to know about free speech on Americaâs college campuses: Weâre all Marxists now. No, weâre not those âcrazy communistsâ whom President Donald Trump denounced at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas last week. I teach at the University of Pennsylvania, where nearly two-thirds of undergraduates enter finance, technology, or consulting. If Iâm trying to convert them to Karl Marx, Iâm doing a very poor job of it. Iâm talking about the comedian Groucho Ma
What voters in the U.S. can learn from Australiaâs political system | Jonathan Zimmerman (opens the original)
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Iâve just returned from a long visit to a country thatâs a lot like the United States. Itâs a former British colony, blessed with vast natural resources and a richly diverse population. But it also has a functioning democracy. Iâm talking about Australia. Our own political system is in tatters, ripped apart by partisan acrimony and a president who stokes it at every turn. But in Australia, democracy still works. Indeed, itâs fun. I realized that when I attended Question Time in Parliam
Michiganâs pass-fail grading wonât cure student angst | Jonathan Zimmerman (opens the original)
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Letâs suppose youâre the kind of citizen who puts a âScience is Realâ sign on your lawn. Youâre outraged by the Trump administrationâs baseless attacks on vaccines and its brazen denials of human-made climate change. You think data â not ideology â should determine our social policies. How can you also be OK with a college lowering its academic expectations for students? Iâm talking about the University of Michigan, which announced last week that first-semester students in its
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