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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
The simplest answer stems from the obvious point that:
Conservatives tend to like things the way they are, or at least the way they were — the status quo as they see it — and don't want much in the ...
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Can the supreme court decision to abolish affirmative action be reversed at any time?
The Supreme Court is reactive, not pro-active. It can only make law on an issue related to one of its previous precedents, when someone brings a lawsuit that presents an issue related to a previous ...
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Is the "leftist" tendency in academia restricted to humanities?
It's surprisingly hard to find a detailed by-major breakdown of these numbers. So far, the best I can do is this study based on a “national survey of 1643 (American) faculty members from 183 four-...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
Objective Truth
Academia is all about the getting closer to objective truth. The peer review process, where other academics look through your work and offer critical appraisals, is about the most ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
Most of the groups you described are more educated. This includes Ivy League professors, professionals working in influential media and in fact-check websites, as well as highly educated politicians ...
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Why don't Harvard and other universities supporting affirmative action simply stop receiving Federal Funds?
Because Harvard receives much more than $22 million
In 2021, Harvard University’s federal funding increased to $625 million. [...] An example of the kind of funding Harvard University received in ...
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Is the "leftist" tendency in academia restricted to humanities?
(Allegedly writing from a conservative PoV) Not much detail and rather older studies, but there does seem to be a rough and ready linkage:
Surveys of professors from the early 2000s show Democrats ...
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Are there any jurisdictions in the US that require public school students to learn Spanish?
Many states like New York and Texas require some study of a language other than English. They don't specify that this should be Spanish, but Spanish is by far the most common. California requires ...
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Why is there typically emphasis on education in general rather than for those related to jobs?
The purpose of education, since the beginning of recorded history, is not the indoctrination of knowledge, or to provide training for a job. The goal is and always has been to replace an empty mind ...
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Is the "leftist" tendency in academia restricted to humanities?
See these two studies which support your assertion.
Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty
Another study paints a similar picture
At least one other explanation for this ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
The charts in Timur Shtatland's answer show a definite correlation between education and liberalism.
Notice that groups with strong conservative values remain relatively unchanged until they decline ...
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In the US, what do federal politicians commenting on education policy propose the federal government should do?
The Tenth Amendment says this:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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In the US, what do federal politicians commenting on education policy propose the federal government should do?
In October, the "Stop the Sexualization of Children Act" was introduced in the House of Representatives. Here is the link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/9197
It ...
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Is Germany making a net profit or net loss from providing free university education to internationals?
In 2016, universities did spend an average of €10,790 per student per year. This number would have risen a bit over the years (compounded inflation comes to 16%), but it is recent enough that I ...
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Is Germany making a net profit or net loss from providing free university education to internationals?
The question has a large number of angles to consider, which doesn't make it simple to find answers. Also, it has been a few years since I was an active part of the discussions about tuition fees, so ...
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Why is there typically emphasis on education in general rather than for those related to jobs?
Better for whom?
Like this mindset of a purely job-related education is deeply troubling with regards to what it means to be human, because in effect you'd reduce a human life to being a specialized ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
A paper by Duarte et al. (2014) claims that: (emphasis mine)
Academic psychology once had considerable political diversity, but has lost nearly all of it in the last 50 years; 2) This lack of ...
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Was socialism popular on US college campuses around 1920?
The First Red Scare in the U.S. was a period of time lasting from about 1918-1920 in which news of the Russian Revolution led to increased fear of similar communist revolution occurring in the United ...
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Why is there typically emphasis on education in general rather than for those related to jobs?
Frame Challenge: Which jobs should the focus on education, and what tasks will those jobs entail in...4-7 years? Or 22 years?
First, a sense of scale regarding educational goals, and the shifting of ...
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How does diversity in education affect educational attainment of students?
Are there any studies looking specifically at more tangible metrics
such as grades in diverse vs. non-diverse student bodies or how
increase/decrease of diversity correlates with student's grades?
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Have any US politicians proposed fully cutting funding from religious schools?
This is a challenging question to answer, given the information on voting at the state legislative level is so disparate, but I will do my best with the information I have.
Certainly we see that there ...
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Why is there typically emphasis on education in general rather than for those related to jobs?
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, one of fundamental pacts on human rights and binding law for all signing parties, really says it all at the beginning of Article 13:
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Why is there typically emphasis on education in general rather than for those related to jobs?
The other answers are optimistic, but there are also cynical reasons to encourage general education so strongly.
First, just to get this one out of the way quickly since it's fairly obvious; education ...
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What books should I read to become politically literate?
I wonder if this question gets closed because it is oppinion based.
Here are two books that I think gives a classic historical context of what politics came out of.
Plato - The Republic
Machiavelli - ...
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Are there countries that have drastically reduced regulations on childcare in order to make it more affordable?
A partial answer as I'm on the move atm, and this is just one example, but had a recent discussion on this subject:
https://english.ey.gov.tw/News3/9E5540D592A5FECD/7b033800-d295-4a7a-8fba-...
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Are there countries without a hard limit on the number of spots at medical schools?
In 2020, in france, a reform of the first three years of medical training a reform was implemented and which led to the end of the numerus clausus.
That numerus clausus, introduced in 1974, was ...
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Why is there typically emphasis on education in general rather than for those related to jobs?
I hate to pull out an old, old saw, but the truth is that knowledge is power. to 'know' something is to have the proper framework to 'do' something, and the ability to 'do' something is the essence of ...
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Why is there typically emphasis on education in general rather than for those related to jobs?
Democratic society requires its citizens to have opinion and make decisions during elections and referendums. It is really bad when majority of the citizens can be convinced into various pseudo-...
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Has the FBI created a structure or apparatus for school boards to report threats from parents?
Q: Has the FBI created a structure or apparatus for school boards to report threats from parents?
There was no need to create a specific "structure" for such reporting. It was only necessary ...
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