The California Education Department’s model Ethnic Studies Curriculum plans to teach children that capitalism is a “system of power” and “oppression” and equal to “white supremacy,” “patriarchy,” and “racism.”
Amidst the bleak news from a poll that found only 24 percent of 18 to 29 year olds are “extremely proud to be an American” comes a literary ray of hope from the heartland.
A Maine Republican sponsored legislation that would forbid teachers from endorsing political candidates and from using their classrooms as bully pulpits for ideological advocacy.
A new study released Monday finds the most popular education topic today is social and emotional learning (SEL), which amounts to the “psychological training of children starting at a young age.”
Conservative parents and education activists are expressing alarm over ostensibly well-intentioned school choice legislation that seeks to ensure families of children in private schools, religious schools, and homeschools receive the same tax advantages as those of public school children.
In June, DeVos said it was her hope that adopting some of the education policies of these nations would “help catch us up” to students from other countries.
A recent workshop offered to K-12 teachers at Columbia University sought to teach them how to be “agents of social justice.”
The Senate has approved Jeb Bush’s former lieutenant governor for the top U.S. Education Department post of assistant secretary of K-12 education.
Parents and family groups have succeeded in putting a halt to a proposed rule in Delaware that would have allowed children in grades K-12 to self-identify as a gender or race without the consent of their parents.
The Cardinal Newman Society says its Catholic Curriculum Standards seek to serve as a “valuable new resource encouraging greater emphasis on what makes Catholic education special while moving beyond reliance on the controversial Common Core State Standards.”
Children in kindergarten need to “understand there are many ways to express gender,” says a “core idea” in the newly released Washington State health and physical education standards.
In 2012, the Donald Trump Foundation donated $20,000 to the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a gay activist organization that promotes the LGBT agenda in K-12 classrooms in public schools.
President Obama said he would be “pulling together governors, mayors, business leaders, and tech entrepreneurs to join the growing bipartisan movement” around K-12 computer science Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Hi everybody. As I said in my State of
A mindset that has gradually led American parents to leave the education of their children — unchecked — to schools and elitists has spawned controversies such as the promotion of Islam in classrooms and the unpopular Common Core standards.
