School districts across the country have pushed Marxist critical race theory, either by requiring teachers to take “anti-racism” trainings or by embracing the discredited “1619 Project” or by championing the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Learning for Justice” lessons. Yet rarely have superintendents blatantly stated that there is no room for dissent from the idea that […]
House Republicans seek passage of legislation to push back against a rule proposed by the Biden administration to promote teaching Americans to judge each other based on skin color. At least three House GOP members last week announced legislation, with two bills targeting schools, one the military, and one all federal institutions. Public comment closes […]
https://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/istockphoto-1206840197-170667a.jpg339509flucashttps://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.pngflucas2021-05-21 01:05:082021-07-16 15:44:07House Republicans Target Teaching of Critical Race Theory
In his seminal article in 1971 on the economic theory of regulation, the Nobel Laureate George Stigler of the University of Chicago argued that government agencies were often “captured” by the industries they were designed to regulate. Before Stigler, the common view was that noble regulators worked assiduously to correct “market failures” with regulation, in order to […]
In a statement on the Catholic League website Thursday, the organization’s President Bill Donohue warned that Critical Race Theory (CRT), which smears the United States as a deeply racist nation, is itself “an inherently racist prescription” because “it judges people on the basis of their skin color, not their individual traits.” CRT “is a textbook example of […]
https://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.png00Discover The Networkshttps://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.pngDiscover The Networks2021-05-15 06:03:352021-05-15 06:03:35Catholic League: Critical Race Theory Is ‘Inherently Racist’
The University of Utah has committed to “becoming ardent anti-racists” and declared “systemic anti-Black racism” as a “public health crisis,” according to a tip obtained through YAF’s Campus Bias Tip Line. An interview with Associate Vice President for Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Jose E. Rodriguez published on the school’s website details their “commitment to […]
https://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.png00Kara Zupkushttps://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.pngKara Zupkus2021-05-14 08:00:402021-05-14 08:00:40University of Utah: ‘Systemic Anti-Black Racism Is A Public Health Crisis’
The University of Utah has committed to “becoming ardent anti-racists” and declared “systemic anti-Black racism” as a “public health crisis,” according to a tip obtained through YAF’s Campus Bias Tip Line. An interview with Associate Vice President for Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion José E. Rodríguez published on the school’s website details their “commitment to health equity.” […]
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by Keith Flaugh and Pastor Rick Stevens Thank you, Governor DeSantis and Commissioner Corcoran, for your bold and courageous leadership. Your determination to protect Florida’s children from harmful ideologies is commendable and inspiring! Governor, we all breathed a sigh of relief when you announced that the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in Florida and […]
https://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.png00Karen Schoenhttps://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.pngKaren Schoen2021-05-13 08:09:002021-05-13 08:09:00An Open Letter on Critical Race Theory to Florida Gov. DeSantis and Comm’r of Education Corcoran
Americans must stop drinking the Kool-Aid. Do you think that just because your governor writes an executive order, people will comply? Do you think that just because you believe in America, Family, and God, everyone else does? Do you think that just because President Reagan took down the wall, that communism would just disappear? Think […]
https://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.png00Karen Schoenhttps://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.pngKaren Schoen2021-05-12 08:49:502021-05-12 08:49:50They Came For Our Kids and We Did Nothing…
Those invested in human dignity and the stability of Western societies have no doubt followed with interest the fashion known as critical race theory (CRT). Author James Lindsay, who has studied and written prolifically on the topic, explains that according to CRT: race is a political construction that was invented by white people to give themselves […]
https://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.png00MercatorNet - Navigating Modern Complexitieshttps://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.pngMercatorNet - Navigating Modern Complexities2021-05-12 07:08:442021-05-12 07:08:44Is the Tide Turning Against Critical Race Theory?
There are four primary reasons that free, universal preschool should be vigorously opposed. Last week, President Biden unveiled his “American Families Plan” that would dramatically expand the federal government’s role in education and family life. In addition to paid leave, subsidized child care, and two years of “free” community college for all Americans, the $1.8 […]
The Democrats are working furiously to fulfill Charles Manson’s dream of a “race war.” Biden to Spend Millions in ‘Science’ Grants for ‘Racial Equity’ The Biden administration is set to waste millions of dollars on “science” grants to force “racial equity.” By Warner Todd Huston, Flag and Cross, May 10, 2021 The Biden administration is set to […]
https://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.png00Pamela Gellerhttps://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.pngPamela Geller2021-05-11 07:18:422021-05-11 07:18:42‘Biden’ Admin to Spend Millions in ‘Science’ Grants for ‘Racial Equity’
The current madness is the stuff of history as we watch it predictably unfold, until—and if—a few, a “happy few,” finally say to the mob, “no mas.” If wokeness should continue and “win,” by now we all know where it will end up. After all, this is not a prairie-fire, peasants-with-pitchforks, spontaneous bottom-up revolution. The […]
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” […]
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VIDEO: The Hate of Critical Race Theory. If there are riots now in America, what will it be like 20 years from now if the New York Times gets its way? The New York Times sponsored the 1619 Project, which postulates that America’s real beginnings as a nation are when the first African slaves were […]
https://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.png00Jerry Newcombehttps://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.pngJerry Newcombe2021-05-06 07:40:572021-05-06 07:40:57Teaching Kids That America Was Always Racist
We need your help. We have an important call to action this week to protect our children in our school systems against Critical Race Theory. Additionally, we wanted to thank all of your for attending our National Virtual Summit and have some interesting details to share, along with an instant replay in case you missed it. […]
https://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.png00Defend Floridahttps://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.pngDefend Florida2021-05-06 06:51:562021-05-06 06:51:56CALL TO ACTION: Stop Critical Race Theory in Florida’s Schools
An AP Psychology exam at an Arizona high school forced students to accuse government officials who promote personal responsibility of having “prejudice,” penalizing them for disagreeing. A teacher at Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale, Arizona has mistaken indoctrination for education. Submitted through YAF’s Campus Bias Tip Line, a student from Mrs. Annie William’s Psychology 101 […]
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COVID presents no threat to children. There hasn’t been one case of a child giving COVID to a teacher. COVID is the club which Democrats mean to beat us down, into submission. Once the children are under their complete, insane control, the rest is child’s play. Anita Dunn, an adviser to the President, says that […]
https://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.png00Pamela Gellerhttps://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.pngPamela Geller2021-05-04 05:58:102021-05-04 05:58:10DEMOCRAT CHILD ABUSE: White House Balks At Reopening Schools
They’re at it again. You would think that public school districts would learn their lesson at some point. After all, many of them turned their backs on students and parents in the wake of COVID-19. And now, those school districts are paying the price. But apparently, they’re too committed to their agenda. Some school districts […]
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Readers are doubtless aware that Jim Crow was a system of state-sanctioned discrimination against black people for the basic reason of their skin color. Housing was segregated as was public accommodations and education. It was almost universally the product of the Democrat Party. Northern Liberals united with Southern bigots to ensure the rule of the […]
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Stand up and fight against this vicious racist indoctrination of our children. Idaho State House Passes Legislation Banning Anti-White ‘Critical Race Theory’ in Schools By: Shane Trejo, Big League Politics, Apr 27, 2021: Legislation to ban the teaching of Marxist Critical Race Theory in Idaho schools has passed in the state house by a 27-8 […]
A group of conservative students at Arizona State University was smeared in an online social media campaign, targeted with doctored images and false claims. According to documents obtained exclusively through YAF’s Campus Bias Tip Line, a current representative in ASU’s student government, Daniel Lopez, reportedly helped create an Instagram page titled “Don’t Vote For These-USG!” intended […]
A spectre is haunting the Western world – the specter of a grossly mistaken understanding of the world. British kids have nightmares about the climate. Half of French respondents think it likely that climate change will cause “the extinction of the human race.” American teachers coddle students who have panic attacks when wildfires rage somewhere on the planet. Eco-anxiety […]
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At this time, there is a rare concurrence of opinion among students of financial markets that a serious disconnect exists between prices and reality. What is meant by that is that prices suggest a cloudless sky ahead, while economic realities are waving warning flags. To understand this, let’s look at the concept of “intrinsic value”. […]
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William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is considered by some to be the single greatest story ever written. Hamlet has it all: ghosts, sword fights, suicide, revenge, lust, murder, philosophy, faith, manipulation, and a climactic bloodbath worthy of a Tarantino film. It’s a masterpiece of both high art and sensationalism, the only play I’ve seen performed live three times. […]
https://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.png00Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)https://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.pngFoundation for Economic Education (FEE)2021-04-27 07:41:552021-04-27 07:41:55Stalin was a ‘Cancel Culture’ Pioneer: The Inside Story on How He Cancelled ‘Hamlet’
The Arizona legislature failed this year to pass a bill that would have required third-grade students to be held back if they failed to learn to read adequately. The unsuccessful bill uncovered some unhappy truths about the state of education. Third grade is recognized as a critical progression point for reading proficiency. Students through third […]
There is no constitutional role for the federal government in education. The Biden administration is taking new steps to promote Critical Race Theory and The New York Times’s controversial 1619 Project in US education programs. In a proposed federal rule issued on Monday, the US Department of Education indicated that it will be using taxpayer funds to […]
https://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.png00Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)https://libertyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_v6_225x110.pngFoundation for Economic Education (FEE)2021-04-24 08:55:472021-04-24 08:55:47Biden Administration Prioritizes “Wokeism,” Critical Race Theory In Schools
During the late 1800s when the renowned scientist Louis Pasteur was trying to overturn the medical community’s deadly belief that germs are not communicable, he wrote: “The greatest aberration of the mind is to believe a thing to be, because we desire it.” The results of a scientific survey conducted just after the 2020 presidential […]
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Parents are starting to push back. Here’s what we should do to empower them. More parents are waking up to the “woke” ideology that is seeping into their children’s classrooms and curriculum. Increasingly, they are speaking up and opting out. Last week, Andrew Gutmann, a father of a student at the elite, US$54,000-a-year Brearley School […]
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Parents are starting to push back. Here’s what we can do to empower them. More parents are waking up to the “woke” ideology that is seeping into their children’s classrooms and curriculum. Increasingly, they are speaking up and opting out. Last week, Andrew Gutmann, a father of a student at the elite, $54,000-a-year Brearley School […]
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The following is adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College on March 30, 2021. Critical race theory is fast becoming America’s new institutional orthodoxy. Yet most Americans have never heard of it—and of those who have, many don’t understand it. It’s time for this to change. We need to know what it is so […]
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School Superintendent: Critical Race Theory ‘Isn’t Optional Anymore’
/in Education, Liberty, News, Social Issues, ThePricklyPear.org /by toneilSchool districts across the country have pushed Marxist critical race theory, either by requiring teachers to take “anti-racism” trainings or by embracing the discredited “1619 Project” or by championing the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Learning for Justice” lessons. Yet rarely have superintendents blatantly stated that there is no room for dissent from the idea that […]
House Republicans Target Teaching of Critical Race Theory
/in Education, Liberty, News, Politics, Social Issues, ThePricklyPear.org /by flucasHouse Republicans seek passage of legislation to push back against a rule proposed by the Biden administration to promote teaching Americans to judge each other based on skin color. At least three House GOP members last week announced legislation, with two bills targeting schools, one the military, and one all federal institutions. Public comment closes […]
Regulatory Capture, Teacher Unions, and CDC Abuse
/in Education, Healthcare, Liberty, News, Social Issues, ThePricklyPear.org /by dseigelIn his seminal article in 1971 on the economic theory of regulation, the Nobel Laureate George Stigler of the University of Chicago argued that government agencies were often “captured” by the industries they were designed to regulate. Before Stigler, the common view was that noble regulators worked assiduously to correct “market failures” with regulation, in order to […]
Catholic League: Critical Race Theory Is ‘Inherently Racist’
/0 Comments/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse /by Discover The NetworksIn a statement on the Catholic League website Thursday, the organization’s President Bill Donohue warned that Critical Race Theory (CRT), which smears the United States as a deeply racist nation, is itself “an inherently racist prescription” because “it judges people on the basis of their skin color, not their individual traits.” CRT “is a textbook example of […]
University of Utah: ‘Systemic Anti-Black Racism Is A Public Health Crisis’
/in Education, ThePricklyPear.org /byThe University of Utah has committed to “becoming ardent anti-racists” and declared “systemic anti-Black racism” as a “public health crisis,” according to a tip obtained through YAF’s Campus Bias Tip Line. An interview with Associate Vice President for Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Jose E. Rodriguez published on the school’s website details their “commitment to […]
University of Utah: ‘Systemic Anti-Black Racism Is A Public Health Crisis’
/in Education, Liberty, News, Social Issues, ThePricklyPear.org /by kzupkusThe University of Utah has committed to “becoming ardent anti-racists” and declared “systemic anti-Black racism” as a “public health crisis,” according to a tip obtained through YAF’s Campus Bias Tip Line. An interview with Associate Vice President for Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion José E. Rodríguez published on the school’s website details their “commitment to health equity.” […]
An Open Letter on Critical Race Theory to Florida Gov. DeSantis and Comm’r of Education Corcoran
/0 Comments/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, News, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Social Issues /by Karen Schoenby Keith Flaugh and Pastor Rick Stevens Thank you, Governor DeSantis and Commissioner Corcoran, for your bold and courageous leadership. Your determination to protect Florida’s children from harmful ideologies is commendable and inspiring! Governor, we all breathed a sigh of relief when you announced that the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in Florida and […]
They Came For Our Kids and We Did Nothing…
/0 Comments/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, News, Policy, Politics /by Karen SchoenAmericans must stop drinking the Kool-Aid. Do you think that just because your governor writes an executive order, people will comply? Do you think that just because you believe in America, Family, and God, everyone else does? Do you think that just because President Reagan took down the wall, that communism would just disappear? Think […]
Is the Tide Turning Against Critical Race Theory?
/0 Comments/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues /by MercatorNet - Navigating Modern ComplexitiesThose invested in human dignity and the stability of Western societies have no doubt followed with interest the fashion known as critical race theory (CRT). Author James Lindsay, who has studied and written prolifically on the topic, explains that according to CRT: race is a political construction that was invented by white people to give themselves […]
Biden’s Universal Preschool Plan
/in Education, Liberty, News, Politics, Social Issues, ThePricklyPear.org /by kmcdonaldThere are four primary reasons that free, universal preschool should be vigorously opposed. Last week, President Biden unveiled his “American Families Plan” that would dramatically expand the federal government’s role in education and family life. In addition to paid leave, subsidized child care, and two years of “free” community college for all Americans, the $1.8 […]
‘Biden’ Admin to Spend Millions in ‘Science’ Grants for ‘Racial Equity’
/0 Comments/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse /by Pamela GellerThe Democrats are working furiously to fulfill Charles Manson’s dream of a “race war.” Biden to Spend Millions in ‘Science’ Grants for ‘Racial Equity’ The Biden administration is set to waste millions of dollars on “science” grants to force “racial equity.” By Warner Todd Huston, Flag and Cross, May 10, 2021 The Biden administration is set to […]
Tuning Out Wokeism
/in Education, News, Politics, Social Issues, ThePricklyPear.org /by vdhansonThe current madness is the stuff of history as we watch it predictably unfold, until—and if—a few, a “happy few,” finally say to the mob, “no mas.” If wokeness should continue and “win,” by now we all know where it will end up. After all, this is not a prairie-fire, peasants-with-pitchforks, spontaneous bottom-up revolution. The […]
It is Not Socialism, It is a Right
/in Economy, Education, Healthcare, Liberty, News, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by bbialosky“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” […]
Teaching Kids That America Was Always Racist
/0 Comments/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse /by Jerry NewcombeVIDEO: The Hate of Critical Race Theory. If there are riots now in America, what will it be like 20 years from now if the New York Times gets its way? The New York Times sponsored the 1619 Project, which postulates that America’s real beginnings as a nation are when the first African slaves were […]
CALL TO ACTION: Stop Critical Race Theory in Florida’s Schools
/0 Comments/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues /by Defend FloridaWe need your help. We have an important call to action this week to protect our children in our school systems against Critical Race Theory. Additionally, we wanted to thank all of your for attending our National Virtual Summit and have some interesting details to share, along with an instant replay in case you missed it. […]
AZ High School AP Exam: Emphasizing Personal Responsibility Promotes “Predjudice” Against African Americans
/in Education, News, Social Issues, ThePricklyPear.org /by kgeisAn AP Psychology exam at an Arizona high school forced students to accuse government officials who promote personal responsibility of having “prejudice,” penalizing them for disagreeing. A teacher at Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale, Arizona has mistaken indoctrination for education. Submitted through YAF’s Campus Bias Tip Line, a student from Mrs. Annie William’s Psychology 101 […]
DEMOCRAT CHILD ABUSE: White House Balks At Reopening Schools
/0 Comments/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Healthcare, Policy, Politics, Social Issues /by Pamela GellerCOVID presents no threat to children. There hasn’t been one case of a child giving COVID to a teacher. COVID is the club which Democrats mean to beat us down, into submission. Once the children are under their complete, insane control, the rest is child’s play. Anita Dunn, an adviser to the President, says that […]
Is Critical Race Theory Coming to a Public School Near You?
/in Education, Liberty, News, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by azfreeenterpriseclubThey’re at it again. You would think that public school districts would learn their lesson at some point. After all, many of them turned their backs on students and parents in the wake of COVID-19. And now, those school districts are paying the price. But apparently, they’re too committed to their agenda. Some school districts […]
From Jim Crow to Joe Crow
/in Education, Liberty, News, Politics, Social Issues, ThePricklyPear.org /by nnobelReaders are doubtless aware that Jim Crow was a system of state-sanctioned discrimination against black people for the basic reason of their skin color. Housing was segregated as was public accommodations and education. It was almost universally the product of the Democrat Party. Northern Liberals united with Southern bigots to ensure the rule of the […]
Idaho State House Passes Legislation Banning Anti-White ‘Critical Race Theory’ in Schools
/0 Comments/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Policy, Politics, Social Issues /by Pamela GellerStand up and fight against this vicious racist indoctrination of our children. Idaho State House Passes Legislation Banning Anti-White ‘Critical Race Theory’ in Schools By: Shane Trejo, Big League Politics, Apr 27, 2021: Legislation to ban the teaching of Marxist Critical Race Theory in Idaho schools has passed in the state house by a 27-8 […]
ASU Conservatives Smeared in Online Campaign
/in Education, News, Politics, Social Issues, ThePricklyPear.org /by kzupkusA group of conservative students at Arizona State University was smeared in an online social media campaign, targeted with doctored images and false claims. According to documents obtained exclusively through YAF’s Campus Bias Tip Line, a current representative in ASU’s student government, Daniel Lopez, reportedly helped create an Instagram page titled “Don’t Vote For These-USG!” intended […]
The Ignorant World and What to Do About It
/in Economy, Education, Liberty, News, ThePricklyPear.org /by jbookA spectre is haunting the Western world – the specter of a grossly mistaken understanding of the world. British kids have nightmares about the climate. Half of French respondents think it likely that climate change will cause “the extinction of the human race.” American teachers coddle students who have panic attacks when wildfires rage somewhere on the planet. Eco-anxiety […]
Understanding Value and Crypto Currencies
/in Economy, Education, News, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by kveitAt this time, there is a rare concurrence of opinion among students of financial markets that a serious disconnect exists between prices and reality. What is meant by that is that prices suggest a cloudless sky ahead, while economic realities are waving warning flags. To understand this, let’s look at the concept of “intrinsic value”. […]
Stalin was a ‘Cancel Culture’ Pioneer: The Inside Story on How He Cancelled ‘Hamlet’
/0 Comments/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse /by Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is considered by some to be the single greatest story ever written. Hamlet has it all: ghosts, sword fights, suicide, revenge, lust, murder, philosophy, faith, manipulation, and a climactic bloodbath worthy of a Tarantino film. It’s a masterpiece of both high art and sensationalism, the only play I’ve seen performed live three times. […]
Unhappy Truths About Education Today
/in Education, Liberty, News, Politics, Social Issues, ThePricklyPear.org /by tpattersonThe Arizona legislature failed this year to pass a bill that would have required third-grade students to be held back if they failed to learn to read adequately. The unsuccessful bill uncovered some unhappy truths about the state of education. Third grade is recognized as a critical progression point for reading proficiency. Students through third […]
Biden Administration Prioritizes “Wokeism,” Critical Race Theory In Schools
/0 Comments/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse /by Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)There is no constitutional role for the federal government in education. The Biden administration is taking new steps to promote Critical Race Theory and The New York Times’s controversial 1619 Project in US education programs. In a proposed federal rule issued on Monday, the US Department of Education indicated that it will be using taxpayer funds to […]
Scientific Survey Shows Voters Across the Political Spectrum Are Ideologically Deluded
/in Education, Liberty, News, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by jagrestiDuring the late 1800s when the renowned scientist Louis Pasteur was trying to overturn the medical community’s deadly belief that germs are not communicable, he wrote: “The greatest aberration of the mind is to believe a thing to be, because we desire it.” The results of a scientific survey conducted just after the 2020 presidential […]
Parents need to create alternatives to politically correct education
/0 Comments/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse /by MercatorNet - Navigating Modern ComplexitiesParents are starting to push back. Here’s what we should do to empower them. More parents are waking up to the “woke” ideology that is seeping into their children’s classrooms and curriculum. Increasingly, they are speaking up and opting out. Last week, Andrew Gutmann, a father of a student at the elite, US$54,000-a-year Brearley School […]
These Parents and Teachers Have Had Enough of Woke Classrooms and Critical Race Theory
/in Education, Liberty, News, Social Issues, ThePricklyPear.org /by kmcdonaldParents are starting to push back. Here’s what we can do to empower them. More parents are waking up to the “woke” ideology that is seeping into their children’s classrooms and curriculum. Increasingly, they are speaking up and opting out. Last week, Andrew Gutmann, a father of a student at the elite, $54,000-a-year Brearley School […]
Critical Race Theory: What It Is and How to Fight It
/in Education, Liberty, National Security, News, Social Issues, ThePricklyPear.org /by cfrufoThe following is adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College on March 30, 2021. Critical race theory is fast becoming America’s new institutional orthodoxy. Yet most Americans have never heard of it—and of those who have, many don’t understand it. It’s time for this to change. We need to know what it is so […]