John McWhorter – Maintaining Standards in Standardized Testing

0:00 What’s on the menu for Glenn’s birthday party

4:49 John’s Twitter spat with Ibram X. Kendi

14:05 What do we lose by changing testing standards?

20:39 Glenn: If groups matter, then culture matters

32:04 How to prove a racist wrong

39:19 The ballad of Glenn and Woody

51:50 Mitchell S. Jackson’s Esquire essay about Clarence Thomas

Links and Readings

John and Ibram X. Kendi on Twitter, part one

John and Ibram X. Kendi on Twitter, part two

John’s NYT piece, “Lower Black and Latino Pass Rates Don’t Make a Test Racist”

John’s NYT piece, “Proving Racists Wrong Is Not a Trivial Pursuit”

Glenn’s 1992 Commentary essay, “Free at Last?”

This American Life segment on Glenn and Woody

Mitchell S. Jackson’s Esquire essay, “Looking for Clarence Thomas”

Barry Bearak’s 1997 NYT profile of Ward Connerly

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