#Joe Biden is set to pull America’s schools far to the left

#Joe Biden is set to pull America’s schools far to the left

“#Joe Biden is set to pull America’s schools far to the left” Education reformers breathed a sigh of relief when it became clear that President-elect Joe Biden wouldn’t tap a teachers-union leader as his secretary of education, contrary to the post-election rumor mill. Instead, Biden nominated Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona. Compared to teachers-union leaders,…

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#Kids are ‘failing’ online learning

#Kids are ‘failing’ online learning

As part of a recent weekly update on education during the pandemic, Los Angeles Unified superintendent Austin Beutner announced a “sobering” fact: students are still struggling with the switch to online learning months after in-person classrooms shuttered. “We can see it in attendance figures which are below those typically seen when students are at schools,”…

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#Team Biden’s backward hostility to charter schools

#Team Biden’s backward hostility to charter schools

“#Team Biden’s backward hostility to charter schools” Joe Biden is expected to name Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona as his education secretary Wednesday. Given rumors about the president-elect tapping union officials for the job, this is a relief. Still, reformers and school-choice advocates shouldn’t let their guards down. In a recent interview with the Education…

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#De Blasio degrades school standards

#De Blasio degrades school standards

“#De Blasio degrades school standards” It’s remarkable enough that a leader sitting in America’s financial capital would deliver such a faithful update of Karl Marx’s disastrous dictum, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” But to do so as a preamble to announcing the removal of selection criteria in middle-school…

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#Indoctrinating an entire school system in PC racism

#Indoctrinating an entire school system in PC racism

“#Indoctrinating an entire school system in PC racism” Seattle Public Schools recently held a racially charged teacher-training session that convicted US schools of committing “spirit murder” against black kids and demanded that white teachers “bankrupt [their] privilege in acknowledgment of [their] thieved inheritance.” According to whistleblower documents from the session that I’ve ­reviewed, the trainers…

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