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World's Leading textbook company goes 'woke,' vows to switch from using only 'English names'
Campus Reform ^ | 03/26/2021 | Ben Zeisloft

Posted on 03/26/2021 9:54:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The world's leading curriculum company Pearson Education announced sweeping changes that would enhance standards “for content relating to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, social class, religion, and disability.”

Pearson — which is the leading producer of educational resources for primary, secondary, and postsecondary courses — revealed new guidelines to “advance the company’s commitment to fighting systemic racism in education” and “create meaningful representations of minorities and challenge racial stereotypes and associated prejudices in all Pearson courseware, digital materials, services, qualifications, and assessments,” according to a February 25 press release.

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The guidelines include an intention to “avoid only using identifiers that are clearly associated with individuals in the dominant culture” with fictional narratives — in particular, “only using English names for characters, including when images are of people of BIPOC/BAME ethnicities.”

Likewise, the guidelines note that an implicit “intersectional view is considered” when discussing race and other issues.

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“As forms of oppression and privilege, race, class, gender and sexuality ‘intersect’ in people's individual lives, in the cultures and communities of which they are a part, and in the institutions that give structure to their life chances,” explains the document’s glossary. “In the 21st Century, the term intersectionality has been broadened, and is used to refer to the complexities of multiple marginalized identities e.g. being Black, female, disabled and gay.”

The company also launched a portal through which students, parents, and teachers can report biased content.

National Association of Scholars Director of Research David Randall told Campus Reform that “Pearson is codifying progressive bias into their textbooks.”

“Practically, they will provide employment to a new cadre of ‘anti-racism’ enforcers within Pearson, who will be necessary to enforce these new guidelines,” he said. “Presumably Pearson believes it is aiding all stakeholders, although subordinating academic quality to radical ideology will only benefit the purveyors of used Pearson textbooks, written before 2021, who will be able to provide superior products.”

Campus Reform reached out to Pearson for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.

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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: education; pearson; woke
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1 posted on 03/26/2021 9:54:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I honestly have no idea what this even means.

I am glad that my kids are all grown, but I worry about the world that we will be leaving my grandchildren.


2 posted on 03/26/2021 9:57:15 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Satan is working overtime to put his players in place “for such a time as this”.


3 posted on 03/26/2021 9:58:10 AM PDT by Maudeen (https://www.ThereIsHopeInJesus.com/ https://www.patburt.com)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

One word, payback.


4 posted on 03/26/2021 10:00:24 AM PDT by OKSooner (BFF: Blame Fauci First)
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To: SeekAndFind

See Ahmad run Run, Ahmad, run.


5 posted on 03/26/2021 10:01:12 AM PDT by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole; you had so much to offer, did you offer your soul?)
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To: I-ambush

“Hassan CHOP!”


6 posted on 03/26/2021 10:04:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Many of the most common “English” names are West Asian in origin. Apparently that’s not good enough.


7 posted on 03/26/2021 10:05:30 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: SeekAndFind

College textbooks are a scam. It figures that the criminals who are publishing the books would join in with the criminals who are creating a totlitarian nation.


8 posted on 03/26/2021 10:11:04 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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To: SeekAndFind

China believes that the Chinese are a superior race.

American and Western European “leaders” and “experts” believe that whites are vicious exploiters and evil—therefore inferior to other races.

Gotta bet on China to rule the world—so these textbooks need to be rewritten in Chinese.


9 posted on 03/26/2021 10:13:07 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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RE: College textbooks are a scam.

Pearson doesn’t just produce college textbooks. They publish textbooks at EVERY GRADE LEVEL.


10 posted on 03/26/2021 10:13:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: I-ambush

From the new, woke, ethnic and gender inclusive, math textbook:

“Tyrone be pimping for 3 ho’s: Keaundra, Daquiesha and Shanice.

1. If the price is $100 for each trick, how many tricks will each ho have to turn so Tyrone can pay for his $800-per-day crack habit?

2. If Shanice is a he/she and can only get $50 for each trick, how many more tricks will Shanice have to turn than Keaundra or Daquiesha to earn Tyrone the same amount?”


11 posted on 03/26/2021 10:14:17 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
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To: cgbg
China believes that the Chinese are a superior race.

They are moving at a faster pace.

12 posted on 03/26/2021 10:14:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s review some of the character names used in Shakespeare’s plays. There’s Borracio, Demetrius, Helena, Lysander, Hermia, Proteus, Silvia, Baptista, Petrucio, Ophelia, Tybalt, Mercutio, Juliette, Isabella, and even one named Dogberry.

Shakespeare is pretty woke for a dead white man.


13 posted on 03/26/2021 10:16:40 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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RE: Let’s review some of the character names used in Shakespeare’s plays

Hey, those names were because the setting was in VERONA. It would be strange if someone wrote a play about a Sultan in Arabia and gave him the name of John Smith.


14 posted on 03/26/2021 10:22:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

LOL, so does that makes him a racist for using stereotypical foreign names, or does it make him even more woke for setting his plays in foreign lands for white audiences to see?


15 posted on 03/26/2021 10:24:43 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: SeekAndFind

I remember the first lesson in a German textbook I had. English translation was “Hassan is a guest worker”. (The book was targeted at Turkish workers in Germany and was completely in German).

Maybe these textbooks can start with “Pedro is an illegal immigrant”


16 posted on 03/26/2021 10:25:43 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s about time Shitavious and Shartiqua had their say in calculus text books.


17 posted on 03/26/2021 10:41:50 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yep. Common Core.


18 posted on 03/26/2021 10:49:32 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: SeekAndFind

Isn’t Dequanisha an English name, or at least an American name?

Even Dequanisha won’t do for this textbook, I guess.


19 posted on 03/26/2021 10:56:18 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: PAR35
Yes, my college German textbook, Deutsch Heute had some lessons like that too. It also had good things to say about the DDR.
20 posted on 03/26/2021 10:59:12 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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