Over at Politico, historian Joshua Zeitz traces the roots of our school battles to the 1925 Scopes Trial. Here is a taste: At first glance, today’s school wars seem like a cut and dried case of modernity versus tradition, secularism...
National Public Radio reports on its recent national poll. A taste: Republican governors like Ron DeSantis in Florida and Glenn Youngkin in Virginia have helped make parents’ rights into a major political talking point, and Republican-aligned groups like No Left Turn In Education...
Christiane Calixte, a junior at Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn, writes: “the retaliation against CRT shows that parents have no idea what students are learning — and that their protests are less about education and more about a projection of...
Historian of education Jonathan Zimmerman thinks so. Here is a taste of the University of Pennsylvania professor’s recent piece at Politico: Steve Bannon is right: The road to saving the nation runs through our schools. The real question is which...
Some evangelical groups facing mask mandates in their local school districts are sharing sample religious exemption forms that their fellow evangelicals can use. Here is one that came across my feeds today: I, _________, hereby state that I have chosen...
According to an Reuters-Ipsos poll 43% of Americans said they are “familiar” with critical race theory. 30% have never heard of it. Other findings from this poll: 24 % of Americans know about the 1619 Project. 22% know about the...
Rich Lowry of The National Review writes: To paraphrase Bill Buckley, it’d be better if the schools were run by the first 50 pissed-off people standing in line to get to the microphone at a contentious school-board meeting than by the...
A recent school district meeting on critical race theory in Souderton, Pennsylvania reveals just how crazy this entire debate has become. Based on Kenny Cooper’s reporting of the event at the website of WHYY (Philadelphia’s public broadcasting television and radio...
Some of you may remember our posts earlier this year about the San Francisco school board’s decision to rename forty-four schools that honor historical figures such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It now appears the board...
