Is Hillsdale the new Harvard?

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The Hillsdale charter schools are outperforming public schools everywhere they are tried, as even the NYTimes has stated.

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Do they teach evolution?

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Anonymous wrote:Which ideas don’t you think Hillsdale students are exposed to? Every curriculum has limitations. I’d rather stress Aristotle than Kimberle Krenshaw.

Harvard offers plenty of classes that read Aristotle, almost certainly more than it does that read Kimberle Crenshaw.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s the perfect school for proper old WASPs turned Christo-fascist. It will never be Harvard. And I hate Harvard too.

I'd actually bet on Hillsdale becoming a new Harvard over any other college. It has really strong name rec (for its size), it has a lot of influential alums (pound for pound), it already has a $1 billion endowment, and their K-12 charters are feeders. Imagine if more mega rich keep sending them a boatload. Imagine if a mega rich donor or family gives a Bloomberg-sized $1 billion donation in the near future. The more they grow the endowment, they can give sharp Conservative kids full ride scholarships like Regis High School in Manhattan. Hillsdale can become a factory pumping out genius Conservative kids groomed for law, politics and media. Land is cheap in that region of Michigan, their is no limit to their expansion.

You're never going to "fix" the Ivies. They are too full of entrenched wackos.

You buried the lead. Grooming it is

And the Ivies groom you for what exactly? To tear down society and plunder middle America via Wall Street and vulture capital.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s the perfect school for proper old WASPs turned Christo-fascist. It will never be Harvard. And I hate Harvard too.

I'd actually bet on Hillsdale becoming a new Harvard over any other college. It has really strong name rec (for its size), it has a lot of influential alums (pound for pound), it already has a $1 billion endowment, and their K-12 charters are feeders. Imagine if more mega rich keep sending them a boatload. Imagine if a mega rich donor or family gives a Bloomberg-sized $1 billion donation in the near future. The more they grow the endowment, they can give sharp Conservative kids full ride scholarships like Regis High School in Manhattan. Hillsdale can become a factory pumping out genius Conservative kids groomed for law, politics and media. Land is cheap in that region of Michigan, their is no limit to their expansion.

You're never going to "fix" the Ivies. They are too full of entrenched wackos.

There is no limit, not their is no limit.

Land is cheap but MAGA elites are not sending their kids to Hillsdale...unless Biff and Buffy just can't get in anywhere else. It's just not happening.

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Anonymous wrote:The Hillsdale charter schools are outperforming public schools everywhere they are tried, as even the NYTimes has stated.

Cite?

Also, FWIW, would love to see the demographics on those schools.

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Anonymous wrote:No school is Harvard (not even Oxford) but people are missing the point, which is that “woke” is destroying everything including the elite schools. All of the DEI and CRT garbage needs to stop. It is just Marxist ideology. It is ideological capture of higher education. The Ivy League didn’t used to be so far to the left. This mostly happened after the Vietnam War. The reason Hillsdale turns up in discussions like this is that they didn’t go woke or change their core curriculum after Vietnam. They continued to use a tried and true curriculum that worked for hundreds of years at the best schools, while Harvard folded to the left like a house of cards.

So it's like the US, that didn't used to be so far to the right? I man Nixon started the EPA and Reagan gave illegals amnesty.

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Anonymous wrote:The Hillsdale charter schools are outperforming public schools everywhere they are tried, as even the NYTimes has stated.

Cite?

Also, FWIW, would love to see the demographics on those schools.

The Hillsdale schools may outperform because they take the funding and high-performing (affluent) kids away from nearby publics.

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Anonymous wrote:The Hillsdale charter schools are outperforming public schools everywhere they are tried, as even the NYTimes has stated.

Cite?

Also, FWIW, would love to see the demographics on those schools.

72% white.

Charter schools self-select. Of course they outperform.

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Anonymous wrote:The Hillsdale charter schools are outperforming public schools everywhere they are tried, as even the NYTimes has stated.

Cite?

Also, FWIW, would love to see the demographics on those schools.

The Hillsdale schools may outperform because they take the funding and high-performing (affluent) kids away from nearby publics.

DC shut down a Hillsdale charter from affiliating here a couple years ago. We can see through the marketing to the indoctrination.

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Anonymous wrote:So Hillsdale has just under 1,600 students. That means each class has, what, 400 in the cohort.

It has a 21% acceptance rate. So, that's what, a total of around 2,000 applicants? Well, with a 62% yield rate (suggesting the self-selecting population), maybe call it more like 3,000?

Hillsdale recently boasted about a 53% increase in applications in the last DECADE. There are schools getting those sorts of numbers YoY.

Few people are clamoring to get into Hillsdale. It appeals to people desperate to remain in a right-wing bubble. That's all.

It's allegedly such an irrelevant college that you are reading and spamming this thread and googling random facts about it during a work day? lol

I am a Harvard graduate and independently wealthy. So I don’t work. I just thought it would be useful to piss on your ridiculous hype.

A school with 3,000 applicants a year isn’t making any leaps and bounds. It appeals to a niche audience. That’s fine. But comparisons to Harvard or real universities? Naw.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol have literally never heard of this school

It’s somewhat notorious.

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Fortunately the extent of their CS education is a minor so don't have to worry about my kid expressing any interest.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol have literally never heard of this school

It’s somewhat notorious.

Not really. It's become a punching bag by the liberal left ... as you see here. Lots of assumptions and no cites to proof.

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Anonymous wrote:Given all of the controversies circling Harvard, are students going to opt for more tradition educations at traditional schools such as Hillsdale College?

Not unless they or their parents already have a right-wing Authoritarian mindset. The Hillsdale 1776 curriculum aims to destroy the humanity of its students. All in the name of Jesus.


https://www.salon.com/2022/03/16/coming-to-a-school-near-you-stealth-religion-and-a-trumped-up-version-of-american-history/

Coming to a school near you: Stealth religion and a Trumped-up version of American history

Exclusive: Hillsdale College's charter school network pushes "patriotic education." Critics say it's propaganda.

This is the second in a three-part investigative series on Hillsdale College, its charter school network and its connection to the national struggle over education. Read Part 1 here.

In recent years, Hillsdale College, a small private Christian school in Michigan, has quietly become a driving force in America's ongoing fights around education. A "feeder school" for the Trump administration, Hillsdale led President Trump's controversial 1776 Commission and serves as a testing ground for the right's most ambitious ideas: For instance, that diversity erodes national unity, that Vladimir Putin is a populist hero and that conservatives should lure so many children out of public schools that the entire system collapses.

Hillsdale has inconspicuously been building a network of "classical education" charter schools, which use public tax dollars to teach that the U.S. was founded on "Judeo-Christian" principles and that progressivism is fundamentally anti-American. In January, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced plans to partner with Hillsdale to launch as many as 50 such schools, which public education advocates fear could be a tipping point in the privatization battle.

In this three-part series, Salon looks at Hillsdale's multifaceted and far-reaching role in shaping and disseminating the ideas and strategies that power the right. In our first installment, we met Hillsdale president Larry Arnn, a Winston Churchill scholar who led Trump's short-lived 1776 Commission and has used his connections to right-wing thought leaders like Ginni Thomas and Betsy DeVos to turn his school into a political powerhouse. He has described education as a "weapon" in the conservative war to reclaim America....