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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Bill Gates is in league with George Soros.
Another a$$ kissing company trying to appease Antifa and BLM so when the riots start again their companies will be spared?
Anyone who doesn’t know that Pearson is a very big, very bad actor in the New World Order’s brainwashing has not been paying attention. From pre-K to post-graduate, Pearson is Big Brother.
They think they see the future and the future is WOKE.
Time to cash in. Did you know that the word Chinaman is racist? Seriously. They are saying here is the authorized form of speech and the rest is RACIST!
FREE SPEECH is a bye gone affair. You have to use their speech or you’re a RACIST!
Take a flamethrower to all the English departments that promote this horsesh1t, to all the Marxists and socialist totalitarians in drag, and tell them they are FIRED! Burn the F@ckin place down.
‘...being Black, female, disabled and gay.”
females; yeah, females sure have it tough in our society...
RE: Did you know that the word Chinaman is racist?
Also sexist and bigoted. You cannot use “man” without insulting women and men who identify as women.
I’ve been a teacher for almost 17 years. Pearson has their tendrils in nearly every aspect of education. I can only imagine the money they make off of taxpayers.
RE: Pearson has their tendrils in nearly every aspect of education.
Who gives them so much power? Aren’t there other textbooks and materials your school can use?
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?”
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Round your answer out to nearest number that pleases you or even your most favorite number.
But it doesn’t really matter, since Tyrone got shanked at county yesterday, Shanice died of AIDS while turning a trick, Daquiesha was found dismembered, and Keaundra OD on Fentanyl.
Those are all white man names, not the original made up African slave names which are all the rage in certain quarters
Once a School or school system began using common core, they had to buy the materials from Pearson. It’s truly disgusting what our own tax dollars have done to this country.
It isn’t just textbooks. It is also at the state level when it comes to statewide testing and end of course exams. Someone has to be getting huge kickbacks from Pearson’s involvement. Most likely, it is multiple someones.
We are going to need more kids named “Beto.”
So if the word “Chinaman” is sexist, bigoted and racist, then the word “Englishman” is too. Crazy world.
IT means that instead of Tom and Jim each have two apples...
It will be Abdul and Concerta each have two tacos...
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