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Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (GSE) will offer 190 classes during the Spring 2022 semester. A few classes are what you would expect: instruction in quantitative analysis, classroom management, and basic pedagogy among them.
But many others are not. One class is titled “Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation Building,” and makes no attempt to relate itself to most American classrooms. Another, called “Education on the Move: Recentering the Body and Movement In Teaching & Learning,” asks students to embrace “decolonized truths about bodies and movement [as being] essential to any kind of progressive and liberatory education.” Of the first 50 traditional classes appearing in the GSE’s course catalog, more than half are directly tied to some form of social justice concept.
The quiet, gradual intrusion of wokeness and other social justice concepts into the lectures, literature, and projects present in many Master of Education (M.Ed.) programs has been well-documented, but this open brazenness is a new and rapidly-spreading phenomenon. Literature was the first conquest—courses are the next one. But while Harvard academics prattle on about how pointing is racist, the next generation of Americans struggles to get through the school day. Fights, vandalism, and sexual harassment have gone from occasional specters to frequent tormenters.
If these universities were offering, even requiring, one or two classes related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, there would be no catastrophe. Unfortunately, many M.Ed. programs place educator education second or even third to social justice initiatives, and students suffer for it in the end.
This problem is by no means limited to Harvard, or even Ivy League universities more broadly. Smaller, public universities have fallen prey to the tide of wokeness as well, though perhaps not to the same extent. Look no further than the University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). UTRGV’s M.Ed. in Educational Leadership consists of 10 required courses. Of these, three are centered around diversity, with one class narrowly focusing on “Ethics, Equity and Diversity.”
Ideological intrusion is difficult to quantify, but it can be done. A Heritage Foundation study sought to determine the research specializations of 3,190 professors across 38 colleges of education, each being either a highly-ranked college or a program that educates a large number of teachers. Forty-eight percent of these educators (70% at California State University – Long Beach) were found to have a social justice research specialization. The vast majority of professors teach courses that are in line with their background and research interests, so it is no wonder that woke classes have emerged in such force across the country.
The philosophical and psychological harms associated with wokeness have, as with the presence of wokeness in college classrooms in the first place, been well-established. The pandemic is most often credited for the nationwide decline in student performance, but an analysis by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (which tested students before the pandemic) found that students’ test scores have been stagnating or dropping since 2012 — nearly a decade before the pandemic’s effects on learning were fully understood.
Wokeness is not ancient. My mother, who earned a teaching degree in the early 1990s, cannot recall any facet of her education being centered around social justice. She remembers extensive pedagogical strategies that held (and still hold) direct relevance in elementary education. But instead of engaging in much-needed research and self-reflection to see if they were the problem after all, education departments around the country are doubling down on their current philosophies and strategies. Many, in the name of equity, are doing away with testing entirely.
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De-wokeifying university education departments is possible, and arguably desirable, but it will not be easy. It will, at minimum, take strong wills, a tangible, competing vision for education, and lots of patience. Unfortunately, American families cannot afford to wait 20 years for any meaningful reforms to trickle down from university education departments to classrooms.
In the meantime, an expansion of school choice is probably the best answer. This year has been deemed the “Year of School Choice,” but there is more to be done. Many states (including my home state of Texas) still lack private school choice options, leaving families without the breadth of opportunities they deserve. With school choice being as popular as it is among the American public, there is a real chance to help families both in the short term and the long term.
While an M.Ed. may look a lot more like an M.SJW. right now, the status quo does not have to be destiny. While education departments around the country are slowly taken over from the inside, parents can push state legislatures for more alternatives to public education (where most of the fallout from bad classes takes place). Education departments are not offering serious classes, but grassroots efforts can help fill the void.
Image via Harvard. Article cross-posted from AIER.
Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We just launched a new GiveSendGo page. We also have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
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