Gov. Tim Walz’s Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) recently requested public comments on its proposed prek-12 Ethnic Studies license, which is written in such a way that politicizes…
Questioning the inclusion of ideological agendas in K-12 education is not opposition to fact-based history, as teachers’ unions and activists claim. In fact, making such a claim is a distraction…
Despite liberals denying its existence, the U is looking for a professor schooled in Critical Race Theory.
Education Minnesota — the state teachers’ union — has a series of resources for educators and school leadership on how to defend Critical Race Theory. The documents, first reported on…
I was very pleased to see that my recent Star Tribune op-ed — Minnesota, we have a problem — generated not one but two day’s worth of replies. Sadly, many…
A cabal of progressives wants to rewrite how students learn about their American heritage.
Woke elites have a long history of intellectual activism in modern America.
The New York Times’ ‘1619 Project’ is the latest chapter in the American left’s ongoing campaign to rewrite history.
Kendall Qualls reflects on how best to influence black communities.
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2020 Issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address to [email protected]. In…
The newspaper’s slavery-at-the-fore reframing of American history distorts this country’s progress and the exceptional ideals that drive it. This Sunday Cover Op-Ed originally appeared in the Star Tribune on December…
Minnesota’s Supreme Court greenlights a lawsuit that would sort students by skin color.
Eloise Anderson, former secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families and a nationally regarded welfare expert, reflects on the experiences that shaped her past and stresses the importance…
George Packer is a staff writer for The Atlantic and lives in New York City. Like most of us, he is the product of public schools and a strong believer…
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2019 Issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address to [email protected]. On July…
Our friends at Intellectual Takeout, on Monday, republished an excellent recent article by Brittany Hunter of the Foundation for Economic Education: “When Sears Used the Market to Combat Jim Crow.”…
An activist court ruling. Metrowide racial balancing of schools. An end to local control. Sum total? This Sunday Cover Op-ed appeared in the Star Tribune on October 7, 2018. On…
There is a large rock outside Minnetonka High School, where painting the rock apparently is a tradition. Last week, some students painted an American flag on the rock. They also…
Governor Mark Dayton issued two decrees this week to the state’s workforce: all non-essential travel is banned to North Carolina and Mississippi. The governor’s memo came in response to legislation…