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Originally published on February 1, 2021 4:27 pm Republican Illinois state lawmakers are pushing back on proposed new standards for teachers and administrators that are scheduled for a hearing before a legislative rulemaking committee later this month. Supporters of the proposed “Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards” say they’re merely an attempt to make sure that all educators are trained in ways to reach students across all racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. But critics are calling them a form of political indoctrination that seeks to inject partisan, liberal i...

For two decades, this writer has sounded the alarm about the progressive dogma being disseminated in America’s classrooms. Dogma presented as irrefutable fact and defended with a single strategy: If you dare to challenge any aspect of that dogma, you’re racist, transphobic, or — as President Joe Biden’s inauguration speech and its laughably hollow call for “unity” made clear — a potential “domestic terrorist.” Thus in Cupertino, California, a class of third graders was forced to “deconstruct” their racial identities, then rank themselv...

The new president managed to slip one order through that could tilt the balance of the House and Electoral College.

Washington’s trying to improve its education system. To that end, the state’s largest public school district is reportedly instructing white teachers to “bankrupt [their] privilege” by keeping a classroom focus on social justice. This, according to CityJournal writer and Discovery Institute Christopher F. Rufo. On Friday, Christopher posted to Twitter a series of allegedly leaked documents from Seattle Public Schools. Front and center: critical race theory training for its molders of young skulls. The slides ask teachers how they’ll promote racial justice at work, but first, they’...