Jonathan Butcher is the Will Skillman fellow in education at The Heritage Foundation and the author of “Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth” (Post Hill Press/Bombardier Books, 2022).
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President Joe Biden wants educators to teach students that racism is endemic in America. He and his “woke” allies think students should learn that our… Read More
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Officials at an Idaho middle school tried pressuring teachers to judge students by the color of their skin. But state lawmakers rejected this application of… Read More
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How would you feel if your child came home from school and said her teacher had told her that everything that happens in the world… Read More
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President Joe Biden’s administration wants you to know your children are biased, and Washington has a plan to fix them. This week, the U.S. Department… Read More
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Thousands of children across West Virginia have new hope for the future. State legislators have approved a proposal that would allow students to use education… Read More
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What happens when we confuse social power with social justice? A trampling of any reasonable definition of fairness, as the fallout from an incident at… Read More
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President Joe Biden’s administration pledged that at least half of K-12 schools in the U.S. will offer in-person learning at least one day per week… Read More
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Educators and policymakers agree that the teaching of civics in K-12 schools is not preparing children to participate in civic life. There’s broad agreement among… Read More
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Noxious Marxist theories that have festered in academia for decades finally burst out of ivy-covered walls in 2020, invading all aspects of American life. It… Read More
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At what would normally be the end of the first academic quarter for most K-12 schools, millions of students still have not set foot in… Read More
