{"id":5907,"date":"2011-05-14T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5907"},"modified":"2011-05-14T17:33:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T17:33:05","slug":"what-price-social-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/what-price-social-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"What price social engineering?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama to Deliver Commencement at Memphis H.S.<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The school edged out hundreds of applicants in the Race to the Top Commencement Competition, an annual contest aligned with the president\u2019s education initiative that rewards schools for \u201cpromoting college and career readiness.\u201d The graduation ceremony is May 16, according to the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cBooker T. Washington High School proves what can be accomplished when students, teachers, parents and administrators come together to support achievement in the classroom, and I\u2019m looking forward to delivering the commencement address at this extraordinary school soon,\u201d Mr. Obama said in a statement.<\/p>\n

According to the White House, the school\u2019s graduation rate rose to 81.6 percent in 2010 from 55 percent three years earlier. Along the way, the school added separate \u201cacademies\u201d for male and female freshmen<\/B> as well as A.P. classes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s set aside the issue of whether sex segregation exhibits efficacy in improving academic performance over the long term. From what I have heard Booker T. Washington High School went beyond sex segregation, they took male and female differences into account in their pedagogy!<\/b> For example, Romeo and Juliet’s romantic element was emphasized for females and its violent inter-familial conflict for males. The natural objection from some quarters is that this “reinforced gender stereotypes.”<\/p>\n

Perhaps. But what some on the cultural Left don’t want to face full on is that those stereotypes emerge from robust average dispositional differences.<\/b> Male and female is not just a detail of plumbing. The average difference of course can be abolished to a great extent, but likely only through positive reinforce and cultural pressure. This is not objectionable to me as such, there are human urges which needed to be channeled, mitigated, and mastered. But the cultural Left’s project of sexual egalitarianism of outcome<\/b> is a challenging task.<\/p>\n

Instead of facing up to this there is often an implicit assumption that humans are “blank slates,” that the differences emerge only through outside imposition. I don’t think this is empirically justified. But we are at a position in culture where that’s not an uncontroversial assertion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obama to Deliver Commencement at Memphis H.S.: The school edged out hundreds of applicants in the Race to the Top Commencement Competition, an annual contest aligned with the president\u2019s education initiative that rewards schools for \u201cpromoting college and career readiness.\u201d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5909,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions\/5909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}