As an author and by all accounts a model academic, Oates, like M.R., works and works but can't quite get full respect.
Many such bills, including Tennessee's, share a common parent: a "Model Academic Freedom Statute on Evolution" written and posted by the Discovery Institute, a conservative think-tank that has long advocated intelligent design.
Growing up in England is a model academic survey, scrupulous, exhaustive, fearsomely footnoted and based on a wide range of often unpublished personal documents, a method that inevitably restricts its attentions to the sort of people who could and did leave letters and journals, namely a tiny upper- and middle-class elite.
The DI's model academic freedom bill and its variants such as the Louisiana law are particularly pernicious.
For a while now, the notion has been floating around that I should become Professor DeWhyse, role model, academic, purveyor of knowledge, teacher, scholar, virtue personified.
Subsequently, in 2008, the Discovery Institute began its multistate promotion of model "academic freedom" legislation that bears striking parallels to the 1980s balanced treatment laws.
On February 7 , 2008 DI posted its deceptively named "Model Academic Freedom Statute on Evolution [version 9/7/2007]" on a special website (Discovery Institute 2007; National Center for Science Education 2009b).5 That year, variants of this model bill were introduced in six states (National Center for Science Education 2009a).
By the time DI began peddling its model academic freedom bill in 2007, a complete set of recycled code terms had publicly supplanted "intelligent design" for policy-making purposes.
Throughout the entire span of 30 years from Bird's 1979 resolution, to the 1981 balanced treatment laws, to DI's 2007 model academic freedom bill, to the 2008 LSEA the basic ideological framework and the charade of academic freedom remain.
Building on the H-O model, academic economist Branko Milanovic has described in an elegant chart how income around the world changed from 1988 to 2008.
