Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse Pushes Left-Wing Policies

The Biden administration’s creation of a “Disinformation Governance Board” in the Department of Homeland Security has been rightly denounced as a “Ministry of Truth” that will abuse government authority and resources to adjudicate what is and is not disinformation. What few people realize is that the federal government already has a Ministry of Truth governing school policy and practice. Located in the U.S. Department of Education, it operates under the innocuous-sounding name of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC).

WWC’s mission sounds benign: to guide educators and policy-makers toward policies and practices that have undergone rigorous scientific evaluation and been proven to work. But, like any Ministry of Truth, no government committee can be trusted to rightly adjudicate disputes that are inherently political in nature. And, as the pandemic has laid bare, scientific controversies with policy implications are almost always political.

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The Biden administration’s creation of a “Disinformation Governance Board” in the Department of Homeland Security has been rightly denounced as a “Ministry of Truth” that will abuse government authority and resources to adjudicate what is and is not disinformation. What few people realize is that the federal government already has a Ministry of Truth governing school policy and practice. Located in the U.S. Department of Education, it operates under the innocuous-sounding name of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC).

WWC’s mission sounds benign: to guide educators and policy-makers toward policies and practices that have undergone rigorous scientific evaluation and been proven to work. But, like any Ministry of Truth, no government committee can be trusted to rightly adjudicate disputes that are inherently political in nature. And, as the pandemic has laid bare, scientific controversies with policy implications are almost always political.