An Academic Divide: Navigating Truth in a Fractured America
An Academic Divide: Navigating Truth in a Fractured America Far too often, I start my day reading electronic versions of NPR News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. My reading habits clearly reflect an educational slant, a predisposition I trace not to my undergraduate or graduate studies, but to my elementary education. It was there, in elementary school, that we were introduced to The New York Times. This practice came with absorbing its "big words" and learning how to fold the oversized newspaper. Our teachers impressed upon us that educated people read The Times, while less educated individuals consumed The New York Daily News or The New York Post. However, while we were diligently reading The Times in school, our parents continued to get their information from the Daily News and the Post. In my household, it was uncommon to converse with elders about their sources of information or their social, pol...