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Reports on education reform, school choice, and classroom policies. The Daily Signal provides conservative commentary and opinion alongside education news.
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opinion
How Critical Race Theory Endangers America’s National Security
I asked my parents about what they would think, theoretically, if I joined the military. As proud Americans with the utmost respect for our armed forces, I figured surely they would not have a problem with this idea. Much to my surprise, the first words out of my mother’s mouth were, “With the way this… -
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British Chaplain Reported to Counterterrorism Agency After Questioning School’s ‘LGBT Stuff’
Holding to the biblical definition of male and female has cost the Rev. Bernard Randall his job. Randall served as chaplain of Trent College, a day and boarding school in Derbyshire, England, for four years. He delivered a sermon to students on the topic of gender identity in 2019. “So, all in all, if you… -
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How 2 Unconventional Education Styles Fostered a Love for America’s Founding
The National Education Association adopted a strategy to impose critical race theory in 14,000 school districts in all 50 states. The association’s decision to promote critical race theory is unsurprising considering it claims America suffers from systemic racism. Public schools, including schools in Loudoun County, Virginia, have added racial diversity books to their classroom libraries…. -
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‘Communism Taking Root in America,’ Critical Race Theory Foe Warns
About 350 concerned residents crowded into a church in Georgetown, Delaware, on Thursday evening to hear from a panel of experts about critical race theory—one of whom likened its spread throughout American culture to Mao Zedong’s communist Cultural Revolution in China. “Today, communism is taking root in America,” speaker Xi Van Fleet said. Critical race… -
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Critical Race Theory Mutilates Centuries-Old Legacy of Interracial Cooperation
Far more than a mere slap in the face, critical race theory is a brass-knuckled beat-down of white and black Americans who bravely have battled slavery, Jim Crow, and other forms of anti-black racism. Since Democrat-fueled, state-mandated segregation ended in 1964, even more white and black Americans have labored to advance the latter’s freedom, prosperity,… -
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Trump’s Budget Director Demands to Know Why Education Department Promoted Critical Race Theory
A top Trump administration official filed a Freedom of Information Act request Wednesday to obtain communications between the Department of Education and a critical race theory activist group whose materials were promoted in a U.S. government guidance book, Fox News reported. Russ Vought, president of the Center for Renewing America and chief of the Office… -
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Do Student Suspensions Really Cause a ‘School-to-Prison Pipeline’?
The Biden administration is picking up where the Obama administration left off in trying to dictate to local school districts how they should best discipline students. Its justification for acting as national school principal is based on the claim that suspending students harms them by excluding them from the learning environment and by stigmatizing them… -
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Parents Must Continue to Fight Critical Race Theory
Every once in a while, the Biden administration likes to pretend that it’s listening to reason. Don’t buy it. That’s the message from conservatives, who are trying to keep parents from falling for the White House’s line that it’s backing away from critical race theory in the classroom. That’s the impression Education Secretary Miguel Cardona… -
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We Hear You: Nothing Nice About Peddling ‘Nice Racism,’ Critical Race Theory
Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience is passionate in responding to our coverage of the left's attempts to divide America by race. See for yourself in this sampling of the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I am a black woman who is old enough to see that Robin DiAngelo’s mumbo-jumbo is just repackaged 1960s… -
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Education Department Backs Off Promotion of Group Espousing Critical Race Theory
The Biden administration called it an “error” to promote a guide by a group espousing critical race theory in an Education Department handbook meant for use in over 13,000 public school districts on recommendations and policies for school reopenings, Fox News reported. The activist group, Abolitionist Teaching Network, has connections to at least two high-ranking officials in… -
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Protecting Life on College Campuses
The physical and psychological traumas associated with the chemical abortion regimen evince the unique horrors of the procedure—even beyond what we are used to in the abortion context. Tammi, one victim of the abortion industry’s embrace of this practice, reflected on her chemical abortion as “savage” and “horrific.” She recalled extreme physical pain and fear throughout the… -
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Critical Race Theory in Classrooms Isn’t Just About Teaching ‘Honest History’
The media spin and outright gaslighting to cover up the reality of the teaching of critical race theory in our schools and institutions has shifted into overdrive. First, we were told it wasn’t happening at all. Then, we were informed that trying to stop it was authoritarian fascism or something. Now left-wing media and politicians… -
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Biological Male May Join Middle School Girls Cross Country Team, Judge Rules
A middle school student who is a biological male may run on a girls cross country team this fall in spite of West Virginia’s new law banning biological males from women’s sports, a federal judge has ruled. Lawyers from the ACLU-West Virginia had argued to U.S. Circuit Judge Joseph R. Goodwin that HB 3293 would unfairly prevent the 11-year-old… -
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How Conservative College Students Can Gain a Voice on Campus
Student activism “has to be loud,” Kristin Dobson, national field director for the Leadership Institute, says. Dobson trains young people across America how to have a voice on their college campus. Through practical tools, she and her team show young people how to promote freedom and conservative principles effectively at their universities. Dobson joins the “Problematic… -
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Federal Education Officials Backpedal on Pushing Critical Race Theory in Schools
The U.S. Department of Education looked into critical race theory’s abyss and blinked. In April, the agency proposed prioritizing the theory’s racially discriminatory ideas in a small federal grant program for K-12 schools. But after receiving a “significant” number of comments on the announcement, the agency demurred earlier this week, saying it would not give… -
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‘Let Them Die,’ Intolerant PTA, NAACP Official Says of Critical Race Theory Foes
If you oppose critical race theory, you should die. That was the message sent Thursday by an official of both the Virginia Parent Teacher Association and the state NAACP to a group of critical race theory supporters. Here’s what Michelle Leete, vice president of communications for the Virginia state PTA and first vice president of… -
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Why Are Defense Department Schools Transitioning Students’ Gender Behind Parents’ Backs?
Our men and women in uniform are prepared to lay their lives on the line every day to uphold the Constitution and protect the nation from enemies who would do us harm, but what many service members may not realize is that a personal threat to their families exists much closer to home. As parental… -
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My Campus Canceled Me Because I Didn’t Post a Black Square on Instagram
I love my university. I cherish the memories I have made and the friends I have met, but all good things have a blemish. I was told college is the time for maturing and growing to become who I am meant to be. Growing up, I was told college is an accepting place where I… -
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Mom Says School Board Threatened to Sue Her for Seeking Public Information on Critical Race Theory in Curriculum
Nicole Solas was surprised to find her name listed on the meeting agenda of her local school board, especially since it said the board was considering taking legal action against her in response to her many requests for public records. The Rhode Island mother of two began filing records requests with the South Kingstown School… -
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Teachers Unions Push Critical Race Theory in Schools, Urge Defiance of State Laws Against It
“Critical race theory is not taught in elementary schools or high schools,” the head of America’s second-largest teachers union insisted Tuesday. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said that what you think is critical race theory is actually just “teaching students accurate history.” The very next day, however, Weingarten introduced a presentation by Ibram…