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North Carolina schools say they need to talk about race, but disagree on how WTVD During a recent class at Hortons Creek Elementary School, 2nd-grade teacher Bria Wright's students advocated for the protection of butterflies. Wright hopes her lesson on protecting the butterflies shows the young students how they can influence things they become interested in, including social justice. "What does it mean to advocate?" Wright asked her students. "We talked about this when we talked about the $20 bill. Schools in North Carolina and across the nation are addressing the issue of ra...

Students at Sutton Middle School, Atlanta, Georgia / Photo by Allison Shelley for EDUimages More parents are waking up to the “woke” ideology that is seeping into their children’s classrooms and curriculum. Increasingly, they are speaking up and opting out. Last week, Andrew Gutmann, a father of a student at the elite, US$54,000-a-year Brearley School in Manhattan, wrote a scathing open letter to the school community. He stated that he wouldn’t be re-enrolling his daughter this upcoming academic year due to the school’s singular focus on “anti-racism” efforts that, according to ...

© Andrew Harnik/Reuters.jpg US President Joe Biden • White House • April 2021 The woke revolution in the classroom is about to go federal. In an early but revelatory move, President Biden's Department of Education has signaled its intent to impose the most radical forms of Critical Race Theory on America's schools, very much including the 1619 Project and the so-called anti-racism of Ibram X. Kendi. (Kendi's "anti-racism" — which advocates a massive and indefinite expansion of reverse discrimination — is more like neo-racism.) Biden is obviously co-opting conservatives' interest in ...

(Andrew Harnik/Reuters) The woke revolution in the classroom is about to go federal. In an early but revelatory move, President Biden’s Department of Education has signaled its intent to impose the most radical forms of Critical Race Theory on America’s schools, very much including the 1619 Project and the so-called anti-racism of Ibram X. Kendi. (Kendi’s “anti-racism” — which advocates a massive and indefinite expansion of reverse discrimination — is more like neo-racism.) Biden is obviously co-opting conservatives’ interest in reviving traditional U.S. history and civics to ...

UpdatedThu, Apr 1, 2021 at 9:24 am CT Reply Township High School District 128, which includes Vernon Hills and Libertyville high schools, is among the school districts where voters will see a long list of candidates to choose from when they head to the polls on April 6. (Shutterstock) LIBERTYVILLE, IL — Suburban school districts across the Chicago area faced many tough decisions in the last year, and plenty of criticism, regarding their handling of schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic. And as we head into Election Day on Tuesday, several school board races are packed with newcomers hopin...