For the Wall Street Journal, William McGurn wrote an op-ed describing the efforts by the Fairfax County School Board and Virginia Parent Teacher Association to scrap merit-based, race-blind admissions to the nation's number one public high school and the ensuing lawsuit. McGurn highlights how such actions are meant to target successful Asian Americans in institutions across the country. “Today’s targeting of successful Asian-American kids lacks the crudity of a Jim Crow lunch counter or a whites-only drinking fountain. But it is no less ugly—and no less racially discriminatory—for being more genteel.” Read the full article here.
As the controversy over CRT in the classroom continues to heat up, many—including members of our Board of Advisors—have been split over whether anti-CRT legislation is effective. For his Substack, Richard Hanania wrote an essay detailing the fact that race-essentialist dogma is a cultural issue that cannot simply be undermined via legislation. “A state can ban CRT, but if it does, kids are still being taught by the same people who thought CRT for kindergartners was a good idea in the first place.” Read the full article here. Many of the most egregious examples of neo-racism manifesting in K-12 education have unfolded at elite private schools. For the Tampa Bay Times, Divya Kumar covered the story of a family who donated $1.35 million dollars to the Academy of the Holy Names, a Catholic school in Tampa, and is now asking for their money back after learning that an intolerant orthodoxy has permeated the school’s classrooms. The common thread with many of these private schools is that they are members of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), which recently endorsed racial segregation of children as young as five via “affinity groups.” Read the full article here.
For his Substack, Matt Taibbi wrote a review of Robin DiAngelo's new book, Nice Racism. Taibbi compares the race-essentialism of DiAngelo to that of the alt-right leader Richard Spencer. “Short of something like selling anthrax spores or encouraging people to explore sexual feelings toward nine year-olds, is there a worse idea than suggesting — demanding — that people get in touch with their white identity?” Read the full article here. |