Until I read Rita Kramer’s book Ed School Follies in the early 90s, I knew nothing about the places where most of our K–12 teachers receive their training. That book showed that ed schools had been captured by educational “progressives” who were much more interested in instilling their attitudes about the world in the minds of up-and-coming teachers than in ensuring that they had solid content knowledge and familiarity with teaching techniques that succeed.
Over the last three decades, things have gotten worse. Ed school leaders aren’t content with gauzy fluff about “student-centered” education; now they make their students read aggressively leftist propaganda.
That’s the conclusion of a study dome by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. The authors read syllabi from the ed schools at the state’s public universities and found them loaded with books pushing “diversity, equity, and inclusion” themes. And keep in mind that education majors are, on the whole, among the weakest students on campus. They’re unlikely to see that they’re being brainwashed.
Wisconsin isn’t alone, of course. You’d find the same thing in every other state.
If you wonder why students struggle with simple math and can’t write a coherent sentence, but are eager to hector you about all of the nation’s socio-economic ills, this is a big part of the explanation.