Woke Grad School Ed Programs Explain Why Kids Can't Read

American kids lag behind those in many other peer nations thanks to the ideology pervading the schools that educate our teachers.

The Federalist

"Rather than wasting government funds — state and local spending, not to mention federal student loan dollars for teachers’ graduate degrees — to promote topics such as “queering elementary education,” give parents the education dollars and let them select the schooling option that meets their children’s needs."

. . . "But in the United States at least, another factor may help to explain students’ poor academic performance. A separate paper by researchers at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) illustrated the ideological obsessions within graduate schools of education, which train the next generation of teachers going into American classrooms.

The AEI study examined course reading materials and syllabi for master’s programs at 10 public graduate schools of education. As the paper notes, because many school districts pay higher wages to teachers with master’s degrees, these graduate schools have a ready-built pipeline of potential students.

Consider the titles of just some of the course readings in one school’s curriculum:

• “Is an Antiracist and Decolonizing Applied Linguistics Possible?” 
• “Theorizing Linguistic Racisms from a Language Ideological Perspective” 
• “Writing, Rioting, and Righting Como Negra: A Testimonio of Black Latinx Erasure in Bilingual Education”
• “Black Languaging [sic] as Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the World Language Classroom”
• “World Languages for Black Linguistic Reparations”
• “Toward an Anti-Racist Linguistic Anthropology: An Indigenous Response to White Supremacy.”

"Note that these are all titles from syllabi at the University of Texas, a publicly funded institution in a purportedly conservative state." . . More.