Tag: racism

Young students sitting on green grass field

^{Walter Myers III
November 21, 2024
Curriculum

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A Remedy for California’s Destructive Ethnic Studies Curriculum

_{Walter Myers III
November 21, 2024
Curriculum

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The state of California passed a law in 2021 requiring all students graduating from high school in the 2029-2030 school year to take at least one semester of ethnic studies. The intent, per the state’s California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, is to encourage cultural understanding of the struggles of equality, equity, justice, racism, ethnicity, and bigotry that have been prevalent throughout the history of America. Even though the state offers a model curriculum, it allows school districts to develop their own curriculum, or they can adopt an existing ethnic studies course. The Independent Institute’s Center for Education Excellence, led by Dr. Williamson Evers, has created the turnkey Comparative Cultures Ethnic Studies curriculum that school boards can evaluate and adopt. It stands in relation to another alternative, Read More ›

Equity News Headlines Diversity Inclusion Social Issue Trend 3d Illustration

^{Keri D. Ingraham
October 26, 2022
Indoctrination, Learning

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‘Equity’ Is Eroding Education

_{Keri D. Ingraham
October 26, 2022
Indoctrination, Learning

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“Equity” is dominating K-12 public education. The drive for equity has bypassed the traditional goal of education in our public schools. Equity is no longer about providing equal opportunity but forcing uniform performance outcomes. Read More ›

^{Walter Myers III
January 19, 2022
Curriculum, Indoctrination

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Critical Race Theory: Intriguing, but Wrong for K-12 Education

_{Walter Myers III
January 19, 2022
Curriculum, Indoctrination

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CRT is a movement of admitted far-left scholars who wish to challenge power structures represented in the American legal culture and society with respect to “the rule of law” and “equal protection.” Their belief is that whereas our laws are ostensibly “neutral” and “objective,” they are neither — and never could have been objective in the first place because of the racial dynamic that has been exercised legally and ideologically over the course of American history. Read More ›

^{Donald Nielsen
June 15, 2020
Education Policy

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The Source of the Problem

_{Donald Nielsen
June 15, 2020
Education Policy

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Racism and police brutality are one source of the problems we are facing today, but those problems have been exacerbated by government’s failure to demand excellence in the performance of their employees and their leadership. Read More ›