Article #1 in a Series >>>>> The Lack of Journalistic Integrity Manifested by the >Star Tribune's< Laura Yuen

This is the first article in a series concerning the lack of journalistic integrity of Laura Yuen at the Star Tribune, with regard to the sloppy research that went into one of her recent articles.

To begin to understand the context for this series, follow the link to an article written by Yuen, published in the 9 April 2023 edition of the Star Tribune  >>>>>

>>>>>      http://www.startribune.com/laura-yuen/8127999

Then proceed to the following communication and be in anticipation of follow-up articles in the course of the next few days  >>>>>

April 14, 2023

 

 

 

Laura---

 

I am not surprised but deeply disappointed that you have not replied to my note concerning your ill-considered article, “The kids are doing ‘new math,’ and may be that’s a good thing” (Star Tribune, 7 April 2023). 

 

I provided you a bevy of information and the prospect of conversing with the most knowledgeable researcher into the history and philosophy of education in the United States and the foremost expert as to the inner workings of the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

This relegates you to the category of journalistic mediocrity to compare with your colleagues Mara Klecker, Anthony Lonetree, and Eder Campuzano and means that you share with them the characteristics of low intellectual curiosity, professional laziness, and low investigative instinct.

 

Together with these journalistic pretenders, you bear responsibility for the low information base of much of the United States citizenry and are complicit in perpetuating a wretched level of public education that produces the body politic.

 

I will be exploring these issues on my blog at http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com .   

 

 

Be well—

 

With best regards---

 

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

Author, 

 

Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools:  Current Gary Condition, Future Prospect (New Salem Educational Initiative, second edition, 2023)

 

Foundations of an Excellent Liberal Arts Education (New Salem Educational Initiative, 2022)

 

A Concise History of African America (Seaburn, 2004)

 

The State of African Americans in Minnesota 2004 (Minneapolis Urban League, 2004)

 

The State of African Americans in Minnesota 2008 (Minneapolis Urban League, 2008) 

 

A Short History of Taiwan:  The Case for Independence (Praeger, 2003)

 

Tales from the Taiwanese (Libraries Unlimited, 2004)

 

Culture and Customs of Taiwan ([with Barbara E. Reed] Greenwood,  1998)