As I noted earlier, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education announced to an Education Department committee that it would drop references to “social justice” in its glossary of desirable attributes in prospective teachers.

This matters not, however, because the council said it would not interfere in education schools which include social justice in the curriculum. Thus Anne is correct when she said in an interview with Inside Higher Ed that “[r]emoving social justice doesn’t eliminate the issue of imposing disposition on teacher candidates.”

But the booby prize in this important debate surely goes to George A. Pruitt, a committee member who commented, “I’m struggling to find how this is a radical agenda…I’m saddened by the notion that our children need to be protected from ‘social justice.’”

And I’m saddened that the clueless Mr. Pruitt sits on a committee with the power to eradicate indoctrination in socialism–the meaning of “social justice” in “progressive education” circles–from our teacher-preparation schools.