Battling the Guards of Red Pedagogy

Martin Center ^ | December 9, 2019 | Shannon Watkins

[karpov]

As education goes, so goes nearly everything else: politics, culture, and social cohesion. And those who form the minds of teachers—who, in turn, instruct young minds—arguably wield even greater influence. It is unsurprising, then, that schools of education, where teachers receive their training, are at the epicenter of ongoing ideological battles.

As the Martin Center’s Jay Schalin pointed out in his report released earlier this year, schools of education were politicized from their founding, but have become even more so over the years. Schools of education have particularly become the home of critical theorists—who aim to radically alter society according to a Marxist-informed vision.

Critical theorists’ campaign to insert their “revolutionary” ideas into K-12 classroom practice is evident in a recent proposal for the establishment of a charter school in Robeson County, North Carolina. The charter school is named Old Main STREAM Academy. The acronym STREAM stands for subjects in STEM (Science, Technology, and Math); the letter “R” stands for both the local Lumbee River and “Reading,” and the letter “A” stands for an “infused arts curriculum.”

Robeson County is one of the poorest counties in North Carolina. In the 2018-2019 fiscal year, the county was over $2 million in the red. It is also home to the state-recognized Lumbee Indian Tribal Association. In the 2017-2018 school year, over 42 percent of public school students in Robeson County identified as American Indians, mainly Lumbees. The proponents of Old Main STREAM Academy say that the school is specifically designed to combat large achievement gaps between the county’s white students and Native American students.

In the 2017-2018 school year, 70.7 percent of white students in North Carolina passed the End of Grade (EOG) reading test, while only 43.4 percent of American Indian students passed.

[karpov]

Source is James G. Martin Center for Higher Education, not WSJ, sorry. Moderators have been notified.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The seeds of this were sown by the KGB in the 40 and 50s, it’s all laid out in the Communist Goals read into the Congressional record in 1963.

[Fiji Hill]

In this case, “red pedagogy” doesn’t mean Republican pedagogy.

[Covenantor]

Much earlier actually...the global spread of the Communist Internal, Comintern in Russian shorthand wad started directly after the Revolution....In the US, the Reds had the open Communist Party of the US, and then a parallel and more powerful set of hidden cells which took orders and direction from Moscow. At no time was the CPUSA independent from Moscow’s Control. Espionage and producing native agents of influence, where have we heard that term in the past few decades. Why spy when you can redirect political policies to one’s liking.

[17th Miss Regt]

Agreed. As well, the Frankfurt School moved to Columbia University in the 30’s and began the spread of their brand of poison in the schools of education. It has metastasized in the last 50 years.

[MacNaughton]

3 … Communist Goals read into the Congressional record in 1963.

Always worth a refresher for the new generation on FR.

Willard Cleon Skousen (January 20, 1913 – January 9, 2006) was an American conservative author and Mormon faith-based political theorist, and a notable anti-communist supporter of the John Birch Society. He also worked at the FBI. His book, The Naked Communist was published in 1958. The book shows us how the Marxist–Leninist Soviet Union is attempting to implement a geopolitical strategy to overcome and control all of the world's governments that are not members of the Communist bloc. Chapter 8 features "the 45 modern communist goals."

Skousen's "45 modern goals of communism" were read into the Congressional Record on 1/10/1963, just 2+ months after the Cuban Missile Crisis, by U.S. Rep. A.S. Herlong Jr. (D-FL) at the insistence of his constituent, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, FL.

THE 45 COMMUNIST GOALS AS READ INTO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1963

[MacNaughton]

5 ...the global spread of the Communist Internal, Comintern in Russian shorthand wad started directly after the Revolution....In the US, the Reds had the open Communist Party of the US, and then a parallel and more powerful set of hidden cells which took orders and direction from Moscow. At no time was the CPUSA independent from Moscow’s Control. …

6 Agreed. As well, the Frankfurt School moved to Columbia University in the 30’s and began the spread of their brand of poison in the schools of education. It has metastasized in the last 50 years.

"Agenda: Grinding America Down", by Curtis Bowers, 2010, 001:33:00 hours

[MacNaughton]

[1Old Pro]

School reform needs to be front and center the day after Trump gets re-elected.