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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – EDUCATION SPECIAL  
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March 14, 2023
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_ Public schools are a political battleground _

, Andy Marlette/USA Today Network-Florida

 

* Blaming Teachers
* War on Emotions in the Classroom
* DeSantis: Marketizing Education
* Education and the Chicago Election
* GOP Culture Wars at School
* High School Student Steps Up After Assault Over Pledge of
Allegiance
* MAGA’s Vanguard
* Oscar the Union Buster
* Fear of a Female Body
* Slavery Scenes That ‘Went With the Wind’

BLAMING TEACHERS
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Rethinking Schools

The “learning loss” narrative shrouds itself in moment-in-time
data from standardized tests, but it is not really
about _this_ moment. Rather, it is a weapon wielded against the
past, to shift blame for pandemic school closures, and against the
future, to narrowly frame the policy choices ahead. 

WAR ON EMOTIONS IN THE CLASSROOM
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By Fabiola Cineas
Vox

Social-emotional learning has been a basic — and uncontroversial —
part of education for decades. So why are conservatives waging a war
against it?

DESANTIS: MARKETIZING EDUCATION
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By Chrissy Stroop
openDemocracy

DeSantis threatened that Florida would simply drop AP courses
altogether. The way DeSantis framed his threat is quite telling –
not only regarding what’s wrong with Florida and Republicans, but
also what’s wrong with the US education system more broadly. He
thinks of education as an industry rather than as a public good that
should be insulated from markets.

EDUCATION AND THE CHICAGO ELECTION
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By Becky Vevea
Block Club Chicago

Chicago voters will head to the polls on April 4 to vote for a new
mayor, choosing between two candidates who are vastly different when
it comes to public education. Brandon Johnson is an organizer with
the Chicago Teachers Union and Paul Vallas is the former CEO of
Chicago Public Schools. Their views vary on everything from school
choice to measuring academic performance. 

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GOP CULTURE WARS AT SCHOOL
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By Jarod Facundo
The American Prospect

Conservative screaming about wokeness is a substitute for the old
priorities of school vouchers and weakening of public education. Polls
show that parents don’t agree.

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HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT STEPS UP AFTER ASSAULT OVER PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
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By Alexa Hurado
The State

A 15-year-old student at River Bluff High School in Lexington SC says
she was physically assaulted by a teacher for refusing the Pledge of
Allegiance. Now her parents are suing Lexington School District One,
Superintendent Gerrita Postlewait, River Bluff Prito recitencipal
Jacob Smith, River Bluff teacher Nicole Livingston and the S.C.
Department of Education on her behalf.

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MAGA’S VANGUARD
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By Andy Krol, Andrea Bernstein and Nick Surgey
ProPublica

Leonard Leo, the longtime Federalist Society leader, helped create a
conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court, and then received
more than a billion dollars from a wealthy Chicago business owner to
disburse to conservative causes. Now, Leo declared in a slick but
private video to potential donors, he planned to “crush liberal
dominance” across American life. 

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OSCAR THE UNION BUSTER
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By Sophie Hayssen
TeenVogue

The Academy was initially designed to seem like an advocate for
employees, effectively trying to replace the need for a union. The
awards were designed so talent would think of themselves as artists
rather than laborers, thereby driving a wedge between them and
technical, union workers.

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FEAR OF A FEMALE BODY
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By Jill Filipovic
Substack

A liberal arts college is in the news after a handful of Muslim
students claimed offense at an on-campus art exhibition by an
Iranian-American feminist artist. A petition calls it offensive —
and says that because it’s offensive, it should never have been
displayed in the first place, and should now be taken down.

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Slavery Scenes That
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By David Vincent Kimel
The Ankler

A civil war roiled the production of _Gone With the Wind_ internally
over the issue of slavery, with one group of screenwriters insisting
on depicting the brutality of that institution, and another faction,
which included F. Scott Fitzgerald, trying to wash it away. 

* Public Education
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* public schools
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* learning loss
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* emotions
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* conservative culture
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* Ron DeSantis
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* Florida
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* AP African American Studies
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* chicago
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* Chicago elections
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* Brandon Johnson
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* Paul Vallas
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* Republican Party
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* high school
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* rights abuses
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* Lexington KY
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* Pledge of Allegiance
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* MAGA
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* Leonardo Leo
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* Oscars
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* union busting
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* fundamentalism
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* Taravat Talepasand
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* Gone With the Wind
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* David O. Selznick
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* depictions of slavery
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