Posted on 05/03/2021 1:29:50 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
The Biden administration wants to turn civics education into something wholly at odds with the American tradition. Biden’s Department of Education has proposed the reformation of civics instruction nationally to “support the development of culturally responsive teaching and learning.” In “Culturally Responsive Education: A Primer for Policy and Practice,” NYU professor David Kirkland explains that such pedagogy abandons “assimilationist” dictates which center “Anglo-European-Christian-Judeo-cis-hetero-male whiteness as the normative reference point.”
As models of what it wants to encourage, the administration’s proposal offers the New York Times’s “1619 Project” and anti-racist guru Ibram X. Kendi. While readers are likely familiar with the New York Times’s historically challenged handiwork, they may know less about the educational musings of Kendi. And yet it is Kendi who may ultimately offer the clearest window into the disturbing implications of what the Biden administration has in mind.
Boston University’s Kendi, one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People of 2020,” gained fame when he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2016 for Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. His visibility has been fueled by his works Antiracist Baby, a 24-page picture book released in summer 2020, and 2019’s mega-hit, How to Be an Antiracist.
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing last year, Kendi’s How To Be An Antiracist became Big Ed’s primary source on matters of race. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture featured Kendi’s book on its “Talking about Race” resource page for teachers. Universities feature it on their summer reading lists, and it’s ubiquitous on the “suggested readings” offered by major foundations, advocacy groups, and professional education organizations. Even the National Park Service offers materials to help high school teachers lead guided readings of How To Be An Antiracist.
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NYU professor David Kirkland explains that such pedagogy abandons “assimilationist” dictates which center “Anglo-European-Christian-Judeo-cis-hetero-male whiteness as the normative reference point.”
Ya gotta work really hard to be that obtusely PC...
Marxist to the core.
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