Grading Edge for Conservative Students

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/03/30/politics

In debates over the Academic Bill of Rights, supporters of the controversial legislation have suggested that conservative students are the victims of classroom bias — and receive lower grades or even failing grades because of their political views.

It turns out that there is actual research that has been done on the subject. And the research suggests that there is no widepsread relationship between students’ political views and their grades. But there is one exception: In some disciplines favored by conservative students, liberal students seem to receive lower grades.

Hence that research must be biased.

Life is so simple when you have an ideology.

Bryant
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Which big librul paid for this "reserch"???!!!! Those preofesors are all comunissts paid by George Sourus!!!!!theyre all part of th 'blame America firt" crowd!!!! This is sooooo obveous.....

I've written papers and made statements about my views and most of the time (with the exception of my liberal history teacher) it fires up a debate and my teachers ask me to keep my statements to myself. Or some other teachers, in the case of my persuasive speech over smokers rights, say that I'm wrong and I dont know what I'm talking about. Not exactly in those words, but you get the idea. None of this has made me discouraged though, because I know somewhere in America my views are appreciated :]

I've been saying for a long time that neither the courts, or education are truly liberal, but range somewhere between extremely conservative to centrist. When you hear liberal these days it really means centrist.

It actually wouldn't surprise me though if conservatives did get lower grades, due to the quality they have of rejecting facts in lieu of "truthiness" or rhetoric, or religionism.

The attack on education by conservatives is just another prong in the right-wing conspiracy, which goes much wider than just attacking a philandering democrat (right-center at that). They are moving on all fronts, catholicism, education, media, war-mongering for gain, and it has been working. Pretending education is liberal is a method to try to make education more conservative, but it is difficult. Unfortunately for them, smart, thinking people aren't easily swayed by rhetoric, or mysticism. Educators are liberal simply because they are smarter, and it benefits them personally too. Think about the general attitudes of republicans toward teachers, toward public education. A teacher voting for Republicans is like a jew voting for Hitler.

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have
too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much
of a good thing."

- Karl Rove, February 19, 2001 -