内容摘要：Those who pick his successor will likely also have to find a platform that will satisfy the demands of the largely

Those who pick his successor will likely also have to find a platform that will satisfy the demands of the largely

While testifying for his bill, Republican state Sen. Jerry Cirino cited John Dewey -- one of the fathers of progressive education and liberalism -- to condemn what he believes to be a hard tack in the other direction at colleges and universities.“He believed that all theories should be examined and debated,” Cirino told fellow lawmakers. “He would certainly have been against the woke conformity we see on so many campuses and the clearly demonstrated liberal leanings of faculty and staff who will not tolerate alternative views.”

Christopher McKnight Nichols, an Ohio State University history professor, said the law has already driven some faculty members to sanitize their websites of “controversial” content, alter course descriptions and, in some cases, cancel courses altogether. He said it’s never been proven that faculty members are systematically punishing students who don’t share their political beliefs.Nichols is among a coalition of Ohio educators, students and administrators fighting back against the new law. Opponents face a late June deadline to collect enough signatures to place a referendum overturning it on the November ballot.In some ways, the efforts to exert greater state control over college faculty and curriculums are moving higher education closer to a governing model generally seen in K-12 education, said Alec Thomson, president of the National Council for Higher Education at the National Education Association.

“It’s a concerning change in the sense that you would expect the institutions to have a fair amount of autonomy to make these decisions about curriculum,” added Thomson, a professor of political science and history at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan.During his first term in 2020, Trump

“combating race and sex stereotyping” in federal agencies and contracting that forbid the promotion of “divisive concepts,” including that one race or sex is “inherently superior” to another, that individuals should feel guilty because of their race or sex and that merit-based systems are racist or sexist.

Similar prohibitions on divisive concepts soon appeared in model bills backed by conservative think tanks and in state higher education laws, including in Florida in 2022. The next year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis initiated a makeover ofmade that solution impractical.

“The blackouts are quite severe and, with gas in short supply, I have to be running around to get food on time,” said Álvarez, a 50-year-old cosmetologist living with her husband and two teenage daughters in the populous Bahía neighborhood in Havana.But what happens when even the

— a reality for several days a month and often for hours each day? That’s when the family’s ingenuity truly kicks in: with no gas and no power, they turn to their charcoal stove.Leisure time also requires creative solutions. Álvarez’s husband, Ángel Rodríguez, an auto mechanic, found a way for the family to catch up on their beloved telenovelas even during blackouts. He ingeniously assembled a television using an old laptop screen and an electric motorcycle battery.