The following includes an edited excerpt from the author’s new book, School of Woke: How Critical Race Theory Infiltrated American Schools and Why We Must Reclaim Them .
It’s almost back to school, and America’s student achievement is lower than ever. After Covid lockdowns erased two decades of small gains in math and reading achievement, the 2022-2023 school year doused what was left of hope for a V-shaped recovery with continued declines . The pandemic hit low-income minority communities worst , leaving school administrators and educators dazed about the severity of America’s broken will to educate students.
The truth is that even before the pandemic, America’s schools were asleep at the wheel. School boards designed to improve student outcomes have become doormats for what I term the “education-industrial complex,” which describes the sea of activist nonprofits, businesses, and bureaucrats who use our massive pile of […]
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