Otherwise, a university librarian compared George Wallace’s ideas to Trump’s.
A few weeks ago Education Week published an article titled” Here’s What the K-12 Field Thinks of the Trump Ed,” in one of the most deceptive articles so far this year. ” Department”
Delightfully, hardly a second teacher from a classroom was among those who expressed their views. Ed Week, played fast and loose with the word “field” and highlighted a number of mostly university scientists.
And do you believe any of them had something positive to say? Hah.
Sharif El-Mekki, a former teacher ( and principal ), who has worked for the Center for Black Educator Development for a number of years, was the closest Ed Week came to a teacher.
El-Mekki, who claimed that talking about race, class, and opportunity is a “natural discussion” for him, claims that MAGA may view Ronald Reagan as “woke.”
Reagan had been derided and kicked out in today’s GOP, El-Mekki claims. The party has embraced cultural fragmentation and denies the need for any racial-based activities. He continued,” We are moving politically and socially back at a time when our nation is becoming more varied under Trump.”
While there are some “instances” of DEI going over in the education sector, such as “pales in comparison” to Trump’s” seeming goal to stop critical thinking,” Alice Ginsberg, associate director for the Rutgers University’s Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice, who specializes in” cultural justice pedagogies, believes there are still some “instances” of DEI going over in the field of education.
The federal Department of Education “was never meant to micromanage schools or dictate curriculum,” according to Ball State University’s David Roof, and it was intended to “ensure a floor of justice [and ] provide federal scaffolding for communities historically left behind.”
Roof says the DOE “didn’t crash us.” We let it go.
Allan Van Hoye, a librarian at the University of Colorado Boulder ( pictured ), whose research interests include critical theory and disinformation, made reference to the spectre of former Alabama governor George Wallace, who once referred to segregation as” segregation today, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.
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Van Hoye swarmily asserts that “while Trump does not remain on stage and consider this ] [emphasis added], his desire to return training to the state is intertwined with his desire. Every time someone calls for state ‘ right, they are also asked to have the proper to discrimination. The Trump administration’s decision to axe the office is not unique.
Other K-12 “experts” include a postdoctoral fellow and PhD student at the University of Houston, a professor of education at USC, and the CEO of a” social-impact company.”
If it needs to be said, oppression studies experts simply cannot grasp that many Americans believe a multicultural nation cannot long functionality when every racial/ethnic party sees itself as part of that class first and foremost — rather than just as” Americans,” we are never moving” socially and politically backward” under Trump.
And need I say that, Van Hoye, a librarian ,’s claim is beyond absurd? Why would you use George Wallace? If you want to appear particularly provocative, just compare the situation to Alabama from the year 1850.
Trump’s plans to abolish the federal government’s training system are undoubtedly questionable, but at the very least a big overhaul and/or restructuring of it is necessary. Giving states and even personal districts more autonomous results in competition and imagination among teachers.
Not to mention, the department. has a$ 80 billion budget and employs thousands of people, and nearly half a billion has been allocated for initiatives to hire black teachers. It collaborated with NGOs to help fight work like “decentering white.”
Remember George W. Bush’s” No Child Left Behind” and Barack Obama’s” Race to the Top” for stifling competition and creativity in favor of a one-size-fits-all approach (or, as Professor Roof remarked, how they “micromanaged schools or dictated curriculum )?
Teachers were made into celebrated class monitors by standard curriculum and prefabricated instruction. In Delaware, Obama’s RTTT led to hastily produced professor “evaluations” like” Part 5,” which caused teachers to sigh at the incompetence.
But they still managed to get national funds in.
( Interestingly, many teachers, particularly the teachers ‘ unions, screamed bloody murder in support of the Bush initiatives; however, Obama’s RTTT program received less harsh criticism. ) How come, Gee?
Decentralization will also give parents more choices, according to a recent study of New York City families who claimed over 40 % of them had taken their children away from town schools because they “wanted a more thorough schooling” than the city was providing. ( Of course, in light of the political tendencies of the educational establishment, see straight above ), change will be more difficult to achieve in blue areas.
If Ed Week actually took the time to travel around the country and interview those on the front lines, particularly the roughly 40 percent of teachers who view themselves as right-of-center, you’d probably find a lot of support for the latest administration’s decentralization efforts. Just novices or utterly incompetents may be reluctant to assume more responsibility for developing their own training and units.
And I can almost guarantee that Trump’s most new administrative order regarding school control will be greeted with an enormous sigh of relief even if many instructors don’t publicly declare it. Nothing can alter a progressive teacher’s politics more quickly than administrators who refuse to care about persistently disruptive students who regularly destroy classrooms.
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A gent expresses his confusion/bewilderment in IMAGE CAPTION & CREDIT: Barnaby Chambers/Shutterstock. U. Colorado Boulder is the front image
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