Busted: In a recent report, Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Jonathan Butcher revealed that British publishing giant Pearson, the world’s largest education-content publisher, infuses radical and discriminatory ideologies, such as “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) and critical race theory (CRT), into its content. 

• The publishing giant, which had a hand in producing Common Core, also manages a teacher licensing assessment program for more than 600 universities in over 40 states and helped to develop USA Hire, which more than 40 federal agencies use to vet job applicants. Read the report here. 

Vanishing Act: Shortly after Heritage published the report, Pearson stripped its website of its editorial guidelines that spelled out its commitment to “antiracism,” “colorism,” “colonial discourse,” “genderism,” and “intersectionality.”  

• Pearson also clandestinely restricted access to one of its teaching videos that promotes CRT around the same time that its director of media relations told Fox News that Pearson doesn’t include CRT in its K-12 content.  

Follow this story on The Daily Signal. 

Sweet Little Lies: The Biden administration is using smoke and mirrors to hide what’s likely a record number of illegal crossings since the end of Title 42.  

• Simon Hankinson and Lora Ries of Heritage’s Border Security and Immigration Center, write that the Department of Homeland Security is channeling illegal migrants to ports of entry “through rampant abuse of parole.” 

Read more here.  

12 Scholars Win Freedom and Opportunity Academic Prizes 

Supporting Truth: Heritage announced the first round of Freedom and Opportunity Academic Prize winners. The initiative supports professionals in higher education who advance research that is aligned with Heritage priorities.

Learn more about the prize and see the winners here.  

Students for Fair Admissions Wins Salvatori Prize 

Merit: Students for Fair Admissions has taken two cases to the Supreme Court that could abolish race preferences in college admissions.

• Previous Salvatori Prize winners include Tucker Carlson, Moms for Liberty, and Dr. Ben Carson. Read more here. 

• 21 Federal Agencies Promote Pride Month With Taxpayer Dollars—Gigi De La Torre  
• Biden’s Open Border Policy Fuels Violence Against Women, Children—Kevin Roberts 
• WATCH: Expert Gives Facts on Human Trafficking at the Border—Lora Ries  
• Purveyors of ‘Hate’? Concerned Parents Find Themselves Listed Alongside the KKK—Tyler O’Neil 
• With Order Making Maryland a Gender Transition Sanctuary, Governor Aids Sex Traffickers—Joshua Arnold 
• Tide Turning Against Biological Men Competing in Women’s Sports, New Poll Finds—Even Among Democrats—Jarrett Stepman 
• Chief Justice Doesn’t Follow His Own Directive in Alabama Redistricting Case—Hans von Spakovsky 
• Big Government Controls Our Lives With More Rules Than Anyone Knows—GianCarlo Canaparo 
• Real Work Requirements for Welfare Recipients Require Real Work—Jamie Bryan Hall 
• An Rx for the Persistent Problem of Prescription Drug Shortages—Edmund Haislmaier 
• India, Russia, and the Ukraine War—Jeff Smith 
• Don’t Give the CCP Backdoor Influence Over U.S. Companies—Michael Cunningham and Bryan Burack  

Appearing on Fox Business, senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky said Americans are rightfully outraged about the apparent selective prosecution of Donald Trump, who did not destroy government documents, vs. Hillary Clinton, who mishandled classified information and did destroy documents, yet faced no prosecution. Watch the clip here.   

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