After Lebsak began attending the union’s conferences in 2015, Lebsack says, she was alarmed to see that many of the topics weren’t academic but instead focused on social justice, human rights, and LGBTQ issues.
If K-12 education is to include moral education, it must allow students to question or dissent from the moral education it provides without fear of punishment. Otherwise, it is indoctrination and thought reform, not education.
These theories basically divide society into two groups: oppressor and oppressed. If you are white, straight, male, and/or wealthy, you are an oppressor. If you are a racial minority, gay or trans, a woman or identify as some other gender, and financially not wealthy, you are oppressed. The objective of critical theory is to defeat oppressors and overturn the system that benefits them.
Academic freedom means subjecting ideas to fearless criticism; only then can mere assertion be distinguished from tested knowledge.
This research concentrates on the increasing dominance of the Critical Social Justice (CSJ) perspective in our universities.
This research concentrates on the increasing dominance of the Critical Social Justice (CSJ) perspective in our universities.
It is now clear that as the avalanche of “wokeness” and national self-hate has crashed over the restraining walls of the American mythos, one pillar of traditional American democracy after another has fallen. (Conrad Black)
Kendi “advocates racial discimination as a cure for past racial discimination…”
Kendi argues that all people fit into only two categories, activists working to destroy systemic racism or, “if you are not an activist, … you are a racist.”
Parents Defending Education is a national grassroots organization working to reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas.
If China gives out money, it believes it owns the recipient. In the last five years, New York University has received some $47 million in gifts from China. The U.S. Department of Education recently cited Stanford University for failing to report more than $64 million in donations from Chinese sources since 2010. It’s no surprise that China recently sent a visiting researcher to Stanford who turned out to be connected with the Chinese military.