Time to support the REAL needs of ALL our struggling kids?
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Dr Ian McCormick
@postfilm@ieji.de
mastodon 4.7.3Quondam Professor of English Language and Literature. Recently, I wrote an epistolary satirical novel called Class and Cloister: the St Andrews Correspondence.
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Woke Shakespeare:
Class and Cloister: the St Andrews Correspondence:
"The evidence is clear: when talented students who have faced greater barriers gain access to elite universities, they flourish precisely because opportunity, not ability, was the binding constraint."
--- Prof Lee Elliot Major, University of Exeter
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jan/07/cambridge-college-elite-private-schools-student-recruitment
"Based only on their accent, lower-working-class people were judged to be on average 14% less intelligent, 4% less friendly and 5% less trustworthy than upper-middle-class people."
#language #HigherEd #edchat #DEI #linguistics
https://www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2021/10/07/accent-bias-in-south-east-of-england
Pocket-Sized Power:
A Feminist History of Portrait Miniatures
#art #feminism #gender #history#Birmingham #Higheredhttps://power.barber.org.uk/
"She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke’."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/25/i-saw-the-backlash-coming-civil-rights-activist-kimberle-crenshaw-on-america-and-race
