[yoe]

John Dewy comes to mind as a major representative of progressive education and liberalism "John Dewey developed ideas of evolutionary democracy and evolutionary education and evolutionary law." Actually Dewy was all over the map as a "modern thinker" ... our public education system was his platform for many of his "experiments in humanism" which discouraged bed rock values.

[exnavy]

Progressives, liberals, socialists, can we just call these people what they truly are, communists, the purveyors of totalitarian government, the thieves of freedom

[FreedomPoster]

Jerry Pournelle has long excoriated “Social Science” as one of the “Voodoo Sciences”; that is, a “discipline” that claims to be science that is simply not science at all, never was, never will be.

[cartan]

Fantastic article. Thanks for posting!

[headsonpikes]

So not only does The Emperor wear no clothes, but he runs around nekkid humping the childern!

Great article, although this insight is coming a little late in the great socialist scheme of things.

[Popman]

Bm

[Scotswife]

Not only are they not going to abolish social studies = they are going to nationalize it to the degree where local control of curriculum is eliminated.
They will even begin sinking their claws into those families who have enrolled their children in private schools - or are homeschooling.

But why stop there?
Let’s get rid of “literature” and replace it with brief “informational” texts (political propaganda)

And let’s redesign the SAT to reflect global awareness and social justice.

And let’s do all these things that Bill Ayers has been traveling around the country advocating.

And let’s do it under the watchful eye of his handpicked maiden under the titles “Race to the Top” and “Core Curriculum”

[ALPAPilot]

I guess if you are a taker and expect the government to take money from your fellow citizens to provide an "education" for your children, this is the type of claptrap they will be fed. . . . Charma?

[Fiji Hill]

A lesson in Tom and Susan, a first-grade text, about a ride in grandfather’s red car is meant to teach children to move “from absorption in self toward consideration of what is best in a group situation.”

When I was in first grade, our class was assigned to read Tom and Susan: a Social Development Primer by Paul R. Hanna et al. (Chicago: Scott Foresman & Co., 1951). Decades later, when I looked at a copy on display in a library, I wondered how I or anyone else could have learned to read from such garbage.