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National Association of Scholars
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The National Association of Scholars is an independent membership association of academics and others working to foster intellectual freedom and to sustain the tradition of reasoned scholarship and civil debate in America's colleges and universities. The NAS advocates for excellence by encouraging commitment to high intellectual standards, individual merit, institutional integrity, good governance, and sound public policy.
The Franklin Standards: A conversation
The Franklin Standards offers a model for K-12 science education that seeks to restore the principles that propelled American science to glory.
Presently, science education in American schools is mired in superficiality and activism, and is failing to prepare future generations of scientists, and the scientifically literate citizenry that will be essential for securing America's future as a prosperous and free republic.
The Franklin Standards is a project of the National Association of Scholars, with help from the Freedom in Education Foundation.
Three of the group that crafted the Franklin Standards recently sat down at Cornell University for a conversation. Randy Wayne is Project Director of the Franklin Standards, and is Associate Professor of Plant Science at Cornell University. David Randall is the Franklin Standards Project Coordinator, and is Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars. Scott Turner is a member of the Expert Committee that drafted the Franklin Standards, and is Director of Science Programs at the National Association of Scholars.
Please visit the Franklin Standards web site:
www.nas.org/reports/the-franklin-standards
The Freedom in Education web site is here:
freedomined.org/
Presently, science education in American schools is mired in superficiality and activism, and is failing to prepare future generations of scientists, and the scientifically literate citizenry that will be essential for securing America's future as a prosperous and free republic.
The Franklin Standards is a project of the National Association of Scholars, with help from the Freedom in Education Foundation.
Three of the group that crafted the Franklin Standards recently sat down at Cornell University for a conversation. Randy Wayne is Project Director of the Franklin Standards, and is Associate Professor of Plant Science at Cornell University. David Randall is the Franklin Standards Project Coordinator, and is Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars. Scott Turner is a member of the Expert Committee that drafted the Franklin Standards, and is Director of Science Programs at the National Association of Scholars.
Please visit the Franklin Standards web site:
www.nas.org/reports/the-franklin-standards
The Freedom in Education web site is here:
freedomined.org/
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The Franklin Standards. A conversation highlight reel
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David Randall, Randy Wayne, and Scott Turner sit down for a conversation about the new Franklin Standards for K-12 science education. We've collected a few of the highlights in this video. The full conversation may be seen here: czcams.com/video/OXJKkXtyHCo/video.html.
Rescuing Science
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We organized a symposium at the June 2024 Heterodox Academy conference. The symposium title was Rescuing Science, reflecting the concern that science in the universities is in trouble - rife with politicization, activism, phoniness, and fraud. To restore science from that sorry state, it needs rescue. We invited three speakers to offer their thoughts. Prof Terence Kealey, Vice-Chancellor emerit...
Gender-Critical Feminism and Academic Witch Hunts. A conversation with Kathleen Stock
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Kathleen Stock is a British philosopher who has been a lightning rod in the ongoing transgender controversies. In her book, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism, she dives deeply into the confusion that surrounds sex, gender, gender identity, and transgenderism. She argues that transgenderism has allowed biological men to intrude on hard-won advancement for interests of women-which ...
Is Sex Binary? A conversation with Alex Byrne and Holly Lawford-Smith
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On the evening of 17 April 2024, the MIT Free Speech Alliance, the Adam Smith Society, and Students for Free Inquiry hosted another Great Debate. Tonight's debate will consider the question: Is sex binary? Prior to the debate, we had a conversation with the team defending the "Yea" side, Prof Alex Byrne, Professor of Philosophy at MIT, and Dr Holly Lawford Smith, Professor of Political Philosop...
Big Intel. An interview with J Michael Waller.
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Mason Goad interviews J Michael Waller, author of the recently released book "Big Intel. How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains". Waller outlines how intelligence agencies have strayed from the missions of protecting Americans from enemies, foreign and domestic to make enemies of the people they are supposed to serve.
Finding Truth in the Postmodern University | Randy Wayne
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Finding Truth in the Postmodern University | Randy Wayne
American Innovation: ENIAC-the First Computer
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American Innovation: ENIAC-the First Computer
American Birthright Introduction for School Boards: David Randall
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American Birthright Introduction for School Boards: David Randall
Boycotting Israel: The BDS Movement on Campus
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Boycotting Israel: The BDS Movement on Campus
Truth in the Postmodern University with Randy Wayne
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Truth in the Postmodern University with Randy Wayne
The Red Badge of Courage: The Great American Novel Series
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The Red Badge of Courage: The Great American Novel Series
The Mayflower Compact: 1620 and the Formation of the American Republic
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The Mayflower Compact: 1620 and the Formation of the American Republic
Woke and Broke: Administrative Bloat and Student Debt
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Woke and Broke: Administrative Bloat and Student Debt
California Prop 16: Facts About the Vote
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Higher Education and America's National Interest
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Higher Education and America's National Interest
Broken: Title IX, Due Process, and the Cost Students Pay
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Broken: Title IX, Due Process, and the Cost Students Pay
Why does explaining how your research will promote DEI undermine the integrity of your research, but explaining how your research will provide a return to the taxpayer does not? Are 'returns on investment to the taxpayer' now part of the scientific method?
To the Narrator! PLEASE don't move or touch your mike. Please.
Cornell is NOT at the forefront of establishing rationality in discussions in the Academy. Just the opposite.
Climate science was fixed when Curry retired 7 years ago.
Jon Schaff gave a lot of good points. Appreciate all the insights!
Lasch would’ve loathed modern-day conservatism and its inhumanity. He was a Debord-influenced Marxist with conservative social values. His early texts say the exact same things about capitalism that Debord, french ultra-left communist, did. And he even refers to Debord many times. Don’t confuse his hatred of modern society with right-wing reactionary thinking. He fundamentally hated wage labor and capitalism in its essence.
Tsonis πατριωτάκι μου καλά τα λες.
Hi @national association of scholars, FYI you can clip the first 53 seconds off and go in the studio and let it flow straight in which should improve retention and boost algorithmic promotion
What a nice interviewer. Brought out the best from Prof Stock.
Evita sent me. Glad to have found this.
Very eye opening.
I am most concerned with Intelligence contractors and lack of oversight. Contractors seem to enjoy the perks of the CIA with no oversight and no obligation to follow CIA rules. The wealthy elite seem to gravitate to contractor groups allowing the rich folks to do as they choose regardless of the law.
Shame the NAS can't set up a pair of microphones properly
You are listed as being on the advisory board for Project 2025. Care to explain yourselves?
You are listed as being on the advisory board for Project 2025. Care to explain yourselves?
Climate scientist are paid to find out whats up iwth the climate and why. Humans are incapable of making accurate predictions. Most of them were made by ignorant journalist. 10 years for Nucs? lol
Either post names of working climate scientist that agree or realize you are on your own. No getting any climate scientist to agree as 99.99% already have.
Trump is a criminal traitor and no evidence that he is not can be posted.
1500 studies on AGCC. Millions of papers. Which one should we discuss? lol Uncertainty is out the window with 1.2C in half a century. SHe is a denying traitor and that is not debatable.
If you vote for Biden, a man who couldn't even swat a fly, he will cure anthropogenic climate change & control the weather! If you follow politics & old headlines it becomes obvious; human induced climate change is a crock of $hit. I am not saying we should not take care of our planet however.
Merit, not race.
The Unibomber Luddite Climate Cult loves Africa farming without machinery and underdeveloped. There racist attitude of let's keep the black people in the dark ages is so woke!
45:06 I agree that there is a continuum here, but I don’t think we should prevent 16-year-old girls from getting nose jobs based on distress about their appearance. The intervention of giving puberty blockers and then sex hormones seems much more impactful in the long run. In other words, while we want to prevent young people from slipping down this slope, this doesn’t mean we should block any kind of cosmetic surgery at a young age. Anyway, I'm a huge fan of yours, Dr. Stock.
This is great thank you
What a stupid question. That's like asking if gravity exists.
Get a professional microphone...
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Race and culture are two distinct and seperate things. There may be considerable overlap in the middle of the Venn diagram, but that does not make the two synonymous. Race and ethnicity refer to immutable, hereditary physical characteristics, but a culture and its ideas and values can be embraced or rejected by those of any race or ethnicity.
These gentlemen are inspiring in all they know! Insightful analyses! Thank you
Is her microphone turned on?
What do you guys think the motivation is, for who ever is pulling these strings, to have these climate alarmists try to achieve these wild goals? I can’t help but feel there is something sinister at play.
Would love some thoughts on this.
Well, not to be cynical, but there's clearly a political agenda at work here, and one that is using "science" to justify it. This is an abuse of science, properly defined, which objectively doesn't support the climate change agenda.
As for the latter years, I took PSSC Physics in high school and it was excellent and inspirational. Not only were the curriculum and lab experiments great, but I also had a knowledgeable teacher too who had a physics degree.
I won't ask what year you took that great physics course, but I'm guessing it was prior NGSS? If so, you've made our point. Prior to NGSS, K-12 science education indeed was very strong, and the Franklin Standards mainly want to get us back to the excellent tradition.
@@NAScholars I believe it was 2 years long and it was back in the late 70s. I'm not familiar when NGSS started. Anyhow, I'm pleased that people are focused on improving the science education system.
I still typewrite and do modern-day typewriting called keyboarding with all fingers and right thumb on the keys and spacebar, without bowing down my head. Your history is very in-depth.👍
The politics here in the US is a complete mess. No one knows the difference between right wing and left wing. I've spent the past two months deep diving into this topic, trying to wrap my head around it. I find that for the most part, this stuff is being pushed by progressive liberals. By and large the resistance is coming from conservatives. However, the actual Marxists are also standing up to this stuff with better analysis in most cases. But the conservatives in the US have been on this long trip of anti-intellectualism so they have this tendency to call anyone they disagree with a Marxist. Yet, in this matter, and humorously many other topics, the Marxists are in line with the conservatives. But these groups will never speak to each other. Marxists care about class politics, they tend to be wary of racial and identity politics. But the conservatives think the critical race theorists are Marxists, they also think Democrats are Marxists along with other such ridiculous things. So, creating a unified front is essentially impossible. The actual liberals here are too scared of being labeled racist to make a stand. It feels pretty hopeless.
This stuff is hitting my school district this year. I spent all year doing equity modules based around Kendi's work and honestly, I was mostly just impressed that the conversation had made it this far. It wasn't until I saw how they were trying to bring this into the math classrooms that I had to pause and really think because something is definitely off here. Firstly, as a Phd in mathematics I'm a bit flustered by how often teachers are taking notes from people who really know almost nothing about mathematics, if I had to summarize the general problem with math education today this would be it. For 30 years teachers have been taking notes from anyone and everyone aside from actual content experts, and it shows. This is a great example of people who know almost nothing about math trying to tell teachers how to math, smdh. Kendi's premise which makes this entire conversation possible is the idea that everything is racist, thus one has only two choices, being racist or being antiracist. This is a typical ideological mind trap. It is designed to relieve people of the strain of having to actually think. This is the same logic used by George Bush when he said, you either support America or you support the terrorists. In politics these statements are used as polarization and to detract non-partisanship. When used as a conclusion, especially when presenting a false dichotomy then it becomes an informal fallacy. These are called thought-terminating cliches in analytic philosophy. I suspect this is why we see so few liberals standing up to this because they cannot afford to be labeled racist etc. But these false binary mechanisms of control are a true hallmark of white supremacy culture. Just look at all the work that has been done around gender for instance. This brings me to what I personally see as one of the most ridiculous aspects of this book. When presenting a list of ways in which white supremacy culture shows up in a math classroom the first thing at the top of this list is, the focus on getting the right answer. There are two things wrong here. Firstly, they just suckered us all into agreeing with them or else be labeled a racist with a false dichotomy that we are not even allowed to question, hypocrisy. Secondly, the focus on getting the right answer has nothing to do at all with some ideological pigeonhole along the political spectrum. The focus on getting the right answer has more to do with graduating people who become civil engineers who can build a bridge without killing thousands of people. Mathematics as a whole is a subject which entirely predates colonialism and the modern notions of both whiteness and blackness that became the predominant modes of society. So, while the institutions of education can certainly have remnants of the culture of white supremacy, the idea that the subject itself is racist is just silly. These conclusions could only be made by someone who barely knows anything about mathematics or its history. To be clear, these education majors, generally speaking, are about 5 community college math classes above any of their students. Yet, they all tell themselves they are as qualified as a mathematician to speak on mathematics, this isn't true. The story of mathematics is already one of the most multicultural stories of all the subjects of classic academia. In fact, Europeans were super late to the table. It was the colonization of the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors which brough modern math to Europe which still took literally hundreds of years to catch on. White people do not own this story. These are the facts. One last tidbit to consider, if math itself is racist, then why does every non-white country in the entire world do much better at math than the United States? For 30 years now education majors have been excluding content experts. Everything they have sold us has failed. We as a country have been in a heated debate over whether to allow middle school kids to learn Algebra, while every other country in the world has the kids doing Calculus in middle school. After a while it starts to look like these teachers will do anything but learn more math. This equity thing is just the new current trendy teacher buzz word being used to market and sell curriculum. It is yet another distraction from the fact we need actual content experts in public curriculum.
I do not understand why Mr. Mills keeps say there is no Energy Revolution going on. By far new generation capacity is renewable energy. The price of batteries and solar PV panels have significantly declined. The revolution will be the creation of a power grid based on battery storage and renewable energy. Mr. Mills is selling the past.
Thank you both for a highly informative and rigorous dialogue. I so hope half our population at least, will hear and understand.
' hash tag GET OVER IT, NO DEBATE ', SMELLS OF ISLAMB; IS LAMB ,,,? OH YES, PART OF A PLAN
So the National Association of Scholars is a place for washed up and outdated bigots. England is certainly a failing nation with Dr. Who and bigotry being the only cultural exports left. Sorry that trans people exist, but yall are not being discriminated for your beliefs. The majority of people accept us and our rights to exist, no wonder your colleagues have abandoned you, they must feel terribly sad for you.
Old testament - Trial by water. Trial by fire Wheel fire - Addie as centre of wheel 59 - close to 60 mins in an hour Madness of darl - platonic divine Punishment of darl is collective punishment over personal values (especially if darl heard Addie say to burn). Addie as christ/fish - she continues to influence after she is dead
If want to get rid of dream image in the head, marry her
We like Faulkner cos of technique, the history of the south is gone
Darwin Marx freud - 19th century Democracy - raising the ordinary to the heroic ideal. Marx - commoners have value
I enjoyed this talk so much. Thank you! I am currently reading AOI and savoring it.
"What do the Trans community need most right now? Abigail Thorn & Freddy McConnell | Pod Save The UK" 12:25 : PhilosophyTube/"Abigail": "Even the way that they have reified biological sex, as if, like, that's an objective fact that's, like, discovered and not something that's assigned like. Like, a lot of people are still like 'well you can't change sex but you can change gender', I say, no, actually clearly you can, I have."
I think “gender critical” is a flawed term, because it suggests skepticism about the existence of gender. The distinction between “sex”, “gender”, “transgender” and “gender identity” is crucial to this debate, and we need to be really clear about what we mean. “Gender identity skeptical” or “transgender critical” would seem more accurate terminology.
"Anti trans bigot" will do. Trans folk have and always will exist, no matter how much you wish it, you cant torture us out of our identities.
Gay men being encouraged to believe that they are really straight women. Straight women being encouraged to believe that they are really gay men. Lesbians being encouraged to believe that they are really straight men. Straight men being encouraged to believe that they are really lesbians. It’s Upside Down World.
When you boil what youre saying down, its just expressing confusion at the idea that trans people are the gender they believe they are and present as. Not to be an armchair psychologist, but I would suggest one reason youve expressed in this way is the prevalence of the old trick of asserting that someone else is doing something for nefarious reasons in order to deny that the reason they say they are doing so exists. This is the idea behind "gay people transition to avoid homophobia" which is ridiculous, of course, as transphobia is just as, if not more prevalent, or that straight males transition in order to assault women. The seperation of these two group's motives, rather than the alternative model that they have the same motive, which is dysphoria, i believe plays a part in your seperation. Idk tho i just wanted to mention that this is a common tactic, the same bathroom idea was applied to lesbians before
@@Sepi-chu_loves_moths "What do the Trans community need most right now? Abigail Thorn & Freddy McConnell | Pod Save The UK" 12:25 : PhilosophyTube/"Abigail": "Even the way that they have reified biological sex, as if, like, that's an objective fact that's, like, discovered and not something that's assigned like. Like, a lot of people are still like 'well you can't change sex but you can change gender', I say, no, actually clearly you can, I have."
A good reasoning conversation is healthy. Even the therapists Tom Anderson and Jaakko Seikkula showed us its healing potential through Open Dialogue. There are many other examples, in peace negotiations, socratic dialogue etc. The basis is respect. It may not always be possible, when the opponent is just playing power gamles, and does not adhere to common reality experience.
Katleen Stock nails it again. A real star.
Great interview. Thanks Kathleen for all you do.
I would use the word pinical rather than ultimate, in my opinion. May be understood easier to lay people.
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Can u be trans without being sexist? I dont think its logically possible. Do trans people not realise how sexist they are
Office space 2.0!