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The Failure of Government-Run Schools
Thomas Jefferson once said, “An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.” Government-controlled schools seemingly disagree with Jefferson, preferring an uneducated populace instead. The trajectory of academic scores in the US has long been plummeting. The decline of basic knowledge among students from the public school system is alarming. However, more disturbing is the framework of the various leftist educational programs that are replacing the traditional academic-based curricula.
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Tagged Black Lives Matter, Critical Race Theory, Kate Brown, SEL programs, STEM, U.S. history
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University Corruption
I'm thankful that increasing attention is being paid to the dire state of higher education in our country. Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has just published "The Diversity Delusion." Its subtitle captures much of the book's content: "How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture." Part of the gender pandering at our universities is seen in the effort to satisfy the diversity-obsessed National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, each of which gives millions of dollars of grant money to universities. If universities don't make an effort to diversify their science, technology, engineering and math (known as STEM) programs, they risk losing millions in grant money.
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Tagged Black Freshmen Orientation, Cal State Los Angeles, George Mason University, Heather Mac Donald, John Searle, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, STEM, The Diversity Delusion, the University of Connecticut, Thomas Sowel, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA
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