American “education schools” (which is to say, college programs for future teachers) have done tremendous harm. Decades ago, they were captured by educational theorists who favored “student-centered” methods and similar fads. These days, they are hotbeds of wokeness, pushing “anti-racism.”
In today’s Martin Center article, Jenna Robinson writes about the malign effect of ed schools in the UNC system.
She writes, “North Carolina’s public schools didn’t ‘go woke’ spontaneously. Our K-12 schools and classrooms have been slowly transformed by teachers who learned and practiced critical theory in schools of education across the state, including those in the UNC system. The John Locke Foundation’s Terry Stoops documents one example of education schools’ critical pedagogy here. Such ideology is infused throughout education school courses.”
Robinson focuses on a number of certificate programs that have been created recently in the UNC system, all of which are heavily laden with the “diversity” mania. Whether students learn basic knowledge and skills is obviously less important than getting them to believe that America is dominated by racism.
Robinson concludes, “Without oversight, these programs will continue to indoctrinate North Carolina’s future teachers. The UNC Policy Manual should be changed to provide necessary oversight to certificate programs, especially in teacher education.”