#Foolish US schools going for woke

#Foolish US schools going for woke

“#Foolish US schools going for woke” A majority of American fourth- and eighth-graders can’t read or do math at grade level, according to the Education Department. And that assessment is from 2019, before the learning losses from pandemic school closures.  Whenever someone asks me about critical race theory, that statistic comes to mind. What’s the…

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#Blinken’s obscene invitation to the United Nations

#Blinken’s obscene invitation to the United Nations

“#Blinken’s obscene invitation to the United Nations” Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s invitation to UN “experts” to investigate “the scourge of racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia” in the United States is an utter travesty. Bits of Blinken’s announcement were pure boilerplate, e.g.: “Great nations such as ours do not hide from our shortcomings; they acknowledge them openly and strive to…

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#It’s bigger than CRT: Radical ideologies transforming US

#It’s bigger than CRT: Radical ideologies transforming US

“#It’s bigger than CRT: Radical ideologies transforming US” ‘WHAT happened to you?” It’s a question I get a lot on Twitter. “When did you become so far right?” “Why have you become a white supremacist, transphobic, misogynistic eugenicist?” Or, of course: “See! I told you who he really was! Just take the hood off, Sully!” …

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#Trump’s Big Tech lawsuit has legs and other commentary

#Trump’s Big Tech lawsuit has legs and other commentary

“#Trump’s Big Tech lawsuit has legs and other commentary” Big Tech watch: Don’s Censorship Suit Has Legs Not so fast, counters Vivek Ramaswamy in The Wall Street Journal to the prestige press predictable dismissals of former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Big Tech censors: “There’s a strong case to be made that social-media censorship violates the…

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#Teach history, not racism, in city classrooms

#Teach history, not racism, in city classrooms

“#Teach history, not racism, in city classrooms” Don’t dismiss this case as as a one-off: It’s all too likely a warning sign of growing “critical race theory”-driven bigotry across the city school system. The faculty at the HS for Law and Public Service in Washington Heights voted to condemn Principal Paula Lev for having “flagrantly…

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#Disingenuous defenses of critical race theory

#Disingenuous defenses of critical race theory

“#Disingenuous defenses of critical race theory” The latest defense for teaching our children to be racially divisive? It’s free speech! Last week, The New York Times published an opinion piece by commentators David French, Kmele Foster, Thomas Chatterton Williams and Jason Stanley, who presented themselves as a heroic “cross-partisan group of thinkers.” They derided as…

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#The last thing kids need is cameras in their classrooms

#The last thing kids need is cameras in their classrooms

“#The last thing kids need is cameras in their classrooms” In an impressive exercise in not playing an idea out to its logical conclusion, some conservatives are pushing for a camera in every classroom across America. This pristinely wrapped gift to the surveillance state comes under the guise of “transparency in the classroom” — parents…

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#The teachers union’s CRT flip, Tlaib’s anarchy and more

#The teachers union’s CRT flip, Tlaib’s anarchy and more

“#The teachers union’s CRT flip, Tlaib’s anarchy and more” Spot the difference: Watch AFT Secretary-Treasurer @fedingram on ABC’s @GMA about how teaching critical race theory allows educators to “give our students the opportunity to understand the full breadth and depth of the American society.” Watch the full clip now pic.twitter.com/7LSwPLJbGA — AFT (@AFTunion) June 14,…

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#Letters to the Editor — July 7, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — July 7, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — July 7, 2021” The Issue: The National Education Association’s plan to fund the teaching of critical race theory in schools. It was interesting reading the column “Union pushes race on kids” by Christopher Rufo (July 6). I do not and never have supported this type of indoctrination for our children….

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