The National Assessment of Educational Progress civics test scores for eighth graders for the first time have registered a decline while history scores continued their steep decline. […]
Tag: critical race theory
Legislature attacks public education
The hyper-conservative Legislature has resumed the attack it started last year on West Virginia’s public schools. Some attacks are more subtle than others, but most of them […]
DeSantis gets colleges to vow not to teach things they weren’t teaching
by Scott Maxwell Florida has become the land of boogeymen — the place where politicians whip up fictional foes to stir hysteria among gullible followers and then […]
House Education approves Senate’s Anti-Racism Act addressing CRT in public schools
MORGANTOWN – The Senate’s Anti-Racism Act – commonly called the anti-CRT bill – cleared its first House of Delegates hurdle on Monday, winning approval in the Education […]
The Good, the Bad and the Stupid Pt. 1
The Legislature is back in session, which means it’s time for the return of “The Good, the Bad and the Stupid” — a weekly roundup of bills […]
Anti-‘woke’ map targets schools
The arch conservative Liberty Alliance has unveiled its new “Woke Heat Map” of Missouri, dotted with “hot spots” where it says the “the Woke agenda … is […]
Democrats should challenge Republicans to climb
She was just trying to defend herself. It seems a Republican “colleague” had slimed Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow in one of those ad hominem, free-of-facts, detached-from-reality, […]
A North Carolina school is standing up to CRT haters. Good
by Sara Pequeño The Republican Party has been railing against CRT, or Critical Race Theory, being taught in schools across North Carolina and the United States. Until […]
Where’s Florida’s evidence for rejecting 41% of math textbooks?
When is transparency not so transparent? When it comes to selecting math textbooks for Florida schools. Republican lawmakers recently passed a law they said would give parents […]
The Good, the Bad and the Stupid: Legislative graveyard
Like the magic that allowed Cinderella to go the ball, the 2022 regular legislative session ended at midnight (technically Sunday) and took with it a whole host […]
