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Progressive Education descended upon my elementary school in Springfield, Missouri in 1951 when I was in fifth grade. Suddenly A, B, and C grades switched to either “P” (progressing) or
Progressive Education, with a capital P, descended upon my elementary school in...
Print this article Parents shocked by the racist curricula that their local schools are teaching their children should have every right to take their tax dollars to another institution. But they should also consider keeping their children in public schools and fighting for control of them. When one reads that third graders in Evanston, Illinois, are being taught that “white culture shows up in the way we think about family structures” and that a belief in a “normal family” consisting of “a mom, dad, son, daughter, and pet” just “isn’t true,” the instinct is to take one's ...
California education officials are considering applying a social justice paradigm to teaching K-12 mathematics that would erase "white supremacy" from the subject and eliminate gifted classes for students.
Cynthia Stead “You’ve come a long way baby…to get where you got to today…” Anyone over 50 can hear the jingle. It was a marketing tune for a cigarette targeted at women called Virginia Slims during one of the last waves of feminism. Its message was "You can smoke your own special cigarette and be just as stupid as men!" But it resonated because women really were beginning to prove themselves as humans capable of difficult and valuable work instead of great organizers of birthday and retirement parties. So at an International Women’s Day event, It was disappointing to hear Janet Ye...