Category: ‘1619 Project’

Majority of Voters Reject Teaching Children That America Is ‘Structurally Racist’: Harvard Poll

About two-thirds of Americans believe that children should not be taught in school the claim that the United States is a “structurally racist” nation dominated by white supremacy, a new poll revealed. The findings were published last week as part of an online survey (pdf) conducted by the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard…


Education Secretary Dodges Questions on CRT, Refuses to Say How Many Genders There Are

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Thursday faced a barrage of questions from House Republicans regarding his department’s endorsement of critical race theory (CRT) and LGBTQ activism, which he downplayed, saying he trusts individual educators to decide what they need to teach. During a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on the priorities of the Education…


Trump on Critical Race Theory in Schools: ‘A Program for National Suicide’

Former President Donald Trump has weighed in on the national debate over the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools, urging lawmakers and parents across the nation to act against what he called “toxic” and “anti-American” indoctrination. “In classrooms across the nation, students are being subjected to a new curriculum designed to brainwash them…


GOP Lawmakers Unveil Bill to Defund 1619 Project in Public Schools

A group of Republican lawmakers on Monday unveiled legislation that would block federal funds for public schools from being used to teach the controversial “1619 Project” published by the New York Times.


Inez Stepman: How Cancel Culture Conditions Society to Accept the Absurd

History is being rewritten in schools across the country in line with the ideas of critical race theory. The Department of Education has proposed a rule to prioritize funding for education programs that incorporate the ideas of the New York Times’ 1619 Project and critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi. This is just the tip…


‘Critical Race Theory Is the New Racism,’ Says Texas Public Policy Foundation Scholar

A scholar at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank, told The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads” program that he believes Critical Race Theory (CRT) “is the new racism,” while praising a bill being finalized in the Texas state legislature that would ban “racial scapegoating” and other objectionable practices that he attributed to the theory….


Trump-Era 1776 Commission Opposes Funding for ‘Teaching of Racial Discrimination’ In Schools

A Trump-era commission tasked with combating “false narratives about the American Founding” has urged the Biden administration to drop its proposal to fund history and civics programs that promote critical race theory or related curricula “under the misleading name of ‘anti-racism.’” The so-called “1776 Commission,” established in the final months of the Trump presidency before…


DeSantis on Critical Race Theory: ‘Offensive’ to Expect Taxpayers to Pay to Teach Kids to ‘Hate Their Country’

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that he opposes teaching critical race theory in the state’s public schools, calling the ideas pushed by its advocates as “based on false history” and “teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other.” DeSantis made the remarks at a Friday press conference in Pensacola, where he…


Trump’s 1776 Commission to Reassmble, Tackle Critical Race Theory in History Education

Members of the 1776 Commission, which President Joe Biden disbanded on his first day in White House, are reportedly set to meet again with a renewed focus on combating the teaching of U.S. history based on the Marxist critical race theory. The advisory commission was established by the Trump administration in November 2020 to celebrate…


Trump’s 1776 Commission to Reassemble, Tackle Critical Race Theory in History Education

Members of the 1776 Commission, which President Joe Biden disbanded on his first day in White House, are reportedly set to meet again with a renewed focus on combating the teaching of U.S. history based on the Marxist critical race theory. The advisory commission was established by the Trump administration in November 2020 to celebrate…