VICTORY: Biden Administration Caves on Critical Theories Federal Grant After Parents Push Back

PJ Media ^ | 07/18/2021 | Stacey Lennox

[SeekAndFind]

It seems the Biden administration will listen to the public when the rejection of their ideas is clear and loud. On April 19, 2021, the Department of Education (DOE) proposed a new regulation to promote culturally responsive teaching and information literacy skills under the American History and Civics Education programs. Under the first priority, the DOE proposal would give preference to grant applications for a curriculum that incorporates ideas laden with critical theories (emphasis added):

American History and Civics Education programs can play an important role in this critical effort by supporting teaching and learning that reflects the breadth and depth of our Nation’s diverse history and the vital role of diversity in our Nation’s democracy. For example, there is growing acknowledgment of the importance of including, in the teaching and learning of our country’s history, both the consequences of slavery, and the significant contributions of Black Americans to our society. This acknowledgment is reflected, for example, in the New York Times’ landmark “1619 Project” and in the resources of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History.

Accordingly, schools across the country are working to incorporate anti-racist practices into teaching and learning. As the scholar Ibram X. Kendi has expressed, “[a]n antiracist idea is any idea that suggests the racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences—that there is nothing right or wrong with any racial group. Antiracist ideas argue that racist policies are the cause of racial inequities.”It is critical that the teaching of American history and civics creates learning experiences that validate and reflect the diversity, identities, histories, contributions, and experiences of all students.

Under the second priority, the DOE wants to build information literacy skills in students when evaluating online information.

[PGR88]

The Dept of Education is a disaster. It has created and supports the debt servitude of American college students, and a transfer of wealth from them to university administrations. It promotes leftist critical race theory.

It should be eliminated.

[Chgogal]

Yup! The Department of Education was established October 17, 1979. It has been a disaster!

[Secret Agent Man]

imwouldn’t be dancing in the streets just yet

socialists do not give up

racial issues are wedge balkanizing weapons for socialists in america

they gave NOT GIVEN UP

they are pausing and regrouping

and setting up the next strategy

i’m glad they were thwarted, of course

this time

but thet are already working to get this reversed

and on other strategies to augment/replace this as needed

[Nateman]

The first mistake was made long ago when Americans handed over the job of teaching its young to the gentle mercy of the State. You have Soviet style funding and you're going to get a Soviet style education. Teachers naturally bow down to the master who signs their check.

Separation of School and State is an Idea whose time has come

[ronnie raygun]

so they use the back door now