An excerpt from "How Mainstream Media's Disimagination Machines Normalize Trump's Authoritarian":
"The educational force of U.S. society is now dominated by cultural and political institutions such as Fox News and conservative talk shows that erode any sense of shared citizenship, historical consciousness and common vision."
An excerpt from "How Mainstream Media's Disimagination Machines Normalize Trump's Authoritarian":
"The educational force of U.S. society is now dominated by cultural and political institutions such as Fox News and conservative talk shows that erode any sense of shared citizenship, historical consciousness and common vision."
What does "educational force of U.S. society" mean in that context? In Portland, where I live, public K-12 is firmly in the hands of progressive administrators and educators who have successfully embedded ant-racism, DEI, gender identity ideology and other progressive causes and ideologies in the curriculum. The Portland teachers' union is engaging or seeks to engage in radical anti-Israel activism. The finalists for the job of Portland's school superintendent are people of color. Minorities are greatly overrepresented on the Oregon Board of Education. That body recently suspended the requirement that students pass proficiency tests in order to graduate after finding that such tests are harmful to blacks.
Except for the Catholic University of Portland, George Fox University and the sketchy institutions known as "Bible colleges," higher education in Oregon as elsewhere has a leftward bent. The recently retired president of Portland State University went so far as to make "equity and racial justice his top strategic priority for the university, calling on other white leaders like himself to educate themselves in order to create real change and work toward eliminating structural racism." https://www.pdx.edu/magazine/news/stephen-percys-legacy
I wish this were the norm rather than the exception. But, at the same time, it does offer us some hope for resistance and progress while pushing against the reactionary cultural apparatuses now driving the educational forces of hate, bigotry, and authoritarianism.
An excerpt from "How Mainstream Media's Disimagination Machines Normalize Trump's Authoritarian":
"The educational force of U.S. society is now dominated by cultural and political institutions such as Fox News and conservative talk shows that erode any sense of shared citizenship, historical consciousness and common vision."
What does "educational force of U.S. society" mean in that context? In Portland, where I live, public K-12 is firmly in the hands of progressive administrators and educators who have successfully embedded ant-racism, DEI, gender identity ideology and other progressive causes and ideologies in the curriculum. The Portland teachers' union is engaging or seeks to engage in radical anti-Israel activism. The finalists for the job of Portland's school superintendent are people of color. Minorities are greatly overrepresented on the Oregon Board of Education. That body recently suspended the requirement that students pass proficiency tests in order to graduate after finding that such tests are harmful to blacks.
Except for the Catholic University of Portland, George Fox University and the sketchy institutions known as "Bible colleges," higher education in Oregon as elsewhere has a leftward bent. The recently retired president of Portland State University went so far as to make "equity and racial justice his top strategic priority for the university, calling on other white leaders like himself to educate themselves in order to create real change and work toward eliminating structural racism." https://www.pdx.edu/magazine/news/stephen-percys-legacy
I wish this were the norm rather than the exception. But, at the same time, it does offer us some hope for resistance and progress while pushing against the reactionary cultural apparatuses now driving the educational forces of hate, bigotry, and authoritarianism.