NAS Blog

Here’s a nice discussion of a proposal from the University of Minnesota’s College of Education that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of “the American Dream” in order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching.   “The report advocates making race, class and gender politics the “overarching framework” for all teaching courses at the U. It calls for evaluating future teachers in both coursework and practice teaching based on their willingness to fall into ideological lockstep. The first step toward “cultural competence,” says the task group, is for future teachers to recognize — and confess — their own bigotry.”

No, this is NOT from The Onion.