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Fear of Bud Light-style blowup has woke publishing giant shook
[NYPOST] Ideologues’ standard playbook for injecting radical race and gender theories into K-12 classrooms and elsewhere: Do it on the sly and, when caught, rush to cover their tracks.The latest example? The world’s largest education publisher, Pearson, started a clumsy purge of its digital footprint after a Heritage Foundation report exposed its obeisance to the ideas animating critical race theory. Pearson, like so many other corporate behemoths, rushed all-in on "equity" in 2021, with new editorial guidelines vowing to make woke concepts like "intersectionality" and "colonial discourse" part of everything it does. Thursday, Heritage researcher Jonathan Butcher let the larger world know about it. His report drew some media scrutiny — and poof! The guidelines vanished from the web along with videos promoting the same ideas, and the company’s chief flack went into full-bore denial, insisting, "Critical race theory is not included in Pearson K-12 materials for public schools or in any materials for government contracts." It’s always bunker mode as soon as these efforts get the tiniest bit of attention. You’d think fearless social justice warriors would be proud of their efforts! But not Pearson — which operates a massive digital learning platform, produces materials for every grade level of US schools and plays a major role in both teacher licensure and federal agency hiring. Posted by: Fred 2023-06-19 |
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