For decades, the Department of Education (ED) has been one of the chief tools of the destructive Left. Especially in recent years, ED has been used to enforce woke orthodoxy on schools across the country.
Understandably, many conservatives have concluded that this weapon that has done so much damage to our cause must be taken out of the fight. But could that same weapon be used to our own advantage in a Republican administration? In this series, leading experts consider the prospects for a conservative agenda at ED and the merits of a national stake in the education of young citizens.
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All Education Is Political
An education system that renders the next generation lonely, incompetent, and contemptuous will produce not citizens but subjects.
Toward a New Educational Federalism
Under the next Republican administration, ED must become the ideological counterbalance to the Left’s schools of education.
Classical Education, ED, and the Ends of Schooling
Reforming our schools will start with a new understanding of purpose, borrowed from the first opponents of the Department of Education.
Can the Department of Education Be Used for Good?
The same funding leverage that enforces woke orthodoxy could be applied in service of an anti-woke agenda by a GOP administration.