John McWhorter – Maintaining Standards in Standardized Testing
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
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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