Education researcher Stanley Kurtz writes “it is no accident” the weight of the battle to save America’s constitutional republic and Western civilization itself “has fallen upon the shoulders of parents.”
A video released Tuesday by Project Veritas (PV), led by James O’Keefe, appears to show a California public high school Advanced Placement Government teacher bragging that he is using Antifa propaganda to indoctrinate his students.
The Biden administration walked back its promotion of a radical Critical Race Theory group in the ed department’s guide to reopening schools.
Education researcher Stanley Kurtz said Secretary Cardona’s comments appearing to back away from Critical Race Theory amount to “bogus window dressing.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has vetoed a misleading bill that would have allowed state sponsorship and funding of “action” or “protest” civics, an education method that permits students to earn class credit for participating in or helping to organize political protests or lobbying efforts.
The Georgia Board of Education is the first state board to adopt a resolution banning the teaching of both the tenets of Critical Race Theory and “protest” civics.
The Texas legislature approved a bill that would ban the teaching of concepts associated with Critical Race Theory and Action Civics.
South Dakota lawmakers are using the “letter of intent” to block education bureaucrats from applying for federal grants to teach Critical Race Theory.
A “Civics Alliance” is urging Sen. John Cornyn to withdraw his support for a bill that backs “action civics” based on Critical Race Theory.
Mitch McConnell and 38 other GOP senators urged Ed Secretary Miguel Cardona to withdraw the “1619 Project” from taxpayer-funded grant programs.
A national parents’ organization that grew out of the battle against the Common Core State Standards is calling for state legislatures to ban Critical Race Theory (CRT) in K-12 schools.
The Biden administration proposed a rule that urges the development of K-12 civics instruction based on Critical Race Theory programs such as the “1619 Project.”
A “Civics Alliance” has acted to work to block a “radical activist” effort to take over K-12 civics education in the United States.
Stanley Kurtz warns the proposed “action civics” curriculum will teach students how to community organize for leftist causes with a woke education program based on Critical Race Theory.
The same Washington establishment that championed the Common Core standards and encouraged more federal involvement in education has endorsed a civics initiative that seeks to indoctrinate K-12 students into woke “action” political organizing, under the guise of restoring “unity.” In
The National Association of Scholars has made public a letter to the Pulitzer Prize Board calling for it to revoke the prize that was given to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her part in the New York Times’ “The 1619 Project,” which claims the motivation for the founding of the United States of America was to enshrine slavery.
“It’s just a particularly clear example of the left-liberal bias that pervades nearly all of the College Board’s AP U.S. History course material, from the Trump administration right back through the colonial period,” he asserts. “Maybe this incident will wake parents up to the need for a real alternative to the College Board’s biased curriculum.”
Jon Boeckenstedt, the Associate Vice President for enrollment management and marketing at DePaul University, took to Twitter to say, “Did you try to turn a national tragedy into a promotional opportunity? I’ve seldom seen something in poorer taste.”
State lawmakers are examining model campus free speech legislation that will address what has become a top issue for college administrators in the New Year: how to ensure free speech while keeping students safe and security costs down.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, an assistant classics professor at Princeton, writes in an op-ed in the New York Times that he is pro-immigration reform and that high school students should be taught about how to fight for illegal immigrants in school. He also does not differentiate between legal and illegal immigration.
As America looks back on the September 11 terrorist attack that changed the nation, the direction of education in the country seems on track to ensure that U.S. students either forget that day entirely or view it as a result of America’s own failure to be open and accepting of other cultures.
Less than one-third of the top colleges and universities in the United States require history majors to take even a single course in American history.
The new curriculum for the Advanced Placement European History test hides the role of Christianity in European history, and also hides Islam’s violent conquests in Europe and its tradition of jihad.
Though it may seem hard to believe, California is on the verge of approving a K-12 curriculum for public schools that is even further left-leaning than its current program of instruction.
Stanley Kurtz believes the battle over AP U.S. History is even worse for America than that over the Common Core standards.
Last week, Danniel Henninger, deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, cited recent changes the College Board made to the Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) framework as a “victory” for conservatives. Experts on the framework, however, think that is quite a stretch.
The confluence of a Supreme Court that decides it has the power to legislate, a pro-active politicized bureaucracy at HUD that is betting the court will help it end-run Congress, and a Congress that allows itself to be manipulated by allowing its own independent agency to usurp its legislative function confirms that the federal government in its entirety has now merely become yet another arm of the Democratic Party.
The Georgia House Rules Committee has failed to advance a highly popular resolution that would have the state’s congressional delegation urge a competitive market for Advanced Placement tests, the federal subsidies for which go entirely to the College Board.
