Fredrik deBoer

Fredrik deBoer is an American academic and author.[1][2][3][4]

Fredrik deBoer
NationalityAmerican
Other namesFreddie deBoer
Alma mater
OccupationAuthor
Websitefredrikdeboer.com

Education

DeBoer earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Central Connecticut State University, Master of Arts degree in writing and rhetoric at the University of Rhode Island, and Doctor of Philosophy degree in English at Purdue University.[5][6] His dissertation was titled The CLA+ and the Two Cultures: Writing Assessment and Educational Testing.[7]

Views and career

DeBoer identifies himself as a "Marxist of an old-school variety".[8]

DeBoer has written for magazines, newspapers and websites.[3][9][10][11][12] Topics include American education policy, cancel culture, and police reform.[2][13][14] He was the communications editor for Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy until 2017.[6][15]

DeBoer's first book, The Cult of Smart, was published in 2020 by All Points Books.[16] Gideon Lewis-Kraus, writing for The New Yorker, says the book "argues that the education-reform movement has been trammelled by its willful ignorance of genetic variation." Lewis-Kraus groups deBoer with "hereditarian left" authors such as Kathryn Paige Harden and Eric Turkheimer in their shared emphasis on the importance of recognizing the heritability of intelligence when formulating social policy.[17]

DeBoer has been a teacher at both the high school and college level.[2]

Books
  • (2020) The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice. All Points Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group. ISBN 9781250200372[16][18][19]

References
  1. "Author". US Macmillan. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  2. Fisher, Anthony L. "'Cult of Smart' author Fredrik deBoer on the taboo of admitting some kids just aren't good at school, why 'equality of opportunity' is bunk, and why he believes in a culture of forgiveness over cancellation". Business Insider. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  3. "Fredrik deBoer". The Guardian. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  4. Swaim, Barton (August 18, 2020). "'The Cult of Smart' Review: Social Justice Goes to School". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  5. "Fredrik deBoer". New America. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  6. "Fredrik deBoer | Brooklyn College of CUNY - Academia.edu". brooklyn-cuny.academia.edu. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  7. Deboer, Fredrik (January 1, 2015). "The CLA and the Two Cultures: Writing Assessment and Educational Testing". Open Access Dissertations.
  8. DeBoer, Freddie. "What is this place?". freddiedeboer.substack.com. Archived from the original on October 11, 2021. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  9. "Articles by Fredrik deBoer". Foreign Policy. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  10. "Articles by Fredrik deBoer". Current Affairs (magazine). Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  11. "Freddie deBoer". Salon.com. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  12. "Published Work". Fredrik deBoer. June 24, 2020. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  13. Homan, Timothy R. (August 2, 2020). "Author Fredrik DeBoer calls for rethinking the push to prioritize college". TheHill. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  14. Callard, Agnes (September 8, 2020). "A More Perfect Meritocracy". Boston Review. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  15. "Issue 22.1 (Fall 2017) - Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy". August 24, 2017. Archived from the original on August 24, 2017. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  16. "The Cult of Smart | Fredrik deBoer | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
  17. Lewis-Kraus, Gideon (September 3, 2021). "Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  18. Robinson, Nathan. "We Don't Know Our Potential". Current Affairs. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  19. Lehman, Charles Fain (August 16, 2020). "REVIEW: 'The Cult of Smart'". Washington Free Beacon. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
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