A Stern Look at Schoolroom PoliticsMaimon Schwarzschild

A grimly funny story made the rounds (if not the papers) recently of grade-school “anti-capitalist” indoctrination in Seattle.  Here is Sol Stern, of the Manhattan Institute, who keeps track of the iceberg of which the Seattle story was a mere tip.  Scroll down for Stern’s articles and op-eds on far-left “progressive education” in public schools, very much including grade schools, across the country. 

The latest: “progressive” math.  This, like much else of the same sort, seems to be inspired by doctrinaires, including ex-Weatherman gurus, in the teacher’s colleges or “ed” schools.  Many – if not most, if not all – of the ed schools (in a more innocent era they were called “normal schools”) are even more gruesome and absurdly politicized than you probably imagine.

Stern is the author of an important book on school choice – “Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of Free Choice”.  It’s not getting any less imperative.