More at the Texas Education Review

The Texas Education Review, a publication of Democracy Project, features articles, opinion pieces, and reviews on topics important to the education reform community. We cover the entire span of formal education, from K--12 to academe.

Our most recent addition to the TER is my review of Diversity: The Invention of a Concept, by Peter Wood. Wood, formerly of Boston University, has recently been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at The King's College, a small institution housed in the Empire State Building in New York.

Readers of this blog may recall the name King's College from a post I did on March 29. I commented on an op-ed in the New York Post by Naomi Schaefer Riley, in which she told of the efforts of New York State Board of Regents member John Brademas to kill off King's by denying it a renewal of its accreditation.

If you read my review of Wood's book on diversity, and keep in mind that "The King" in King's name is Christ, you'll see why Brademas, the former president of New York University, wants to kill off this small school: it's overtly Christian, and Wood is quite conservative. It's a brazen attempt to put anti-Christian, anti-conservative bigotry into practice, and it has the nice little pay-off of reducing the amount of competition that larger schools must suffer.