Seeking Educational Excellence (SEE) is an organization committed to ending identity politics and the social justice agenda in schools. [...] SEE believes the social justice agenda fosters a sense of victimhood. Victimhood should not be a protected social class. It creates social disconnect and...

Heterodox Academy is a group of 4,400+ professors, administrators, K-12 educators, staff & students who believe diverse viewpoints & open inquiry are critical to research & learning. [...] We aspire to create college classrooms and campuses that welcome diverse people with diverse...

Our Back-to-School Playbook includes a set of resources to help you create a learning environment that supports constructive dialogue. Resources include: Leading an OpenMind Classroom. Tips and strategies to foster constructive dialogue in your classroom. A Guide to Student Roles in Classroom...

This training helps businesses fight racism systematically by equipping clients with the Theory of Enchantment Three Principled Practice. This practice engages clients in the study of pop culture and literary texts authored by some of the greatest moral, philosophical, and intellectual giants...

My encounter with a bad idea

We know how to close the math achievement gap, now we just have to do it

But the real reason was to hide the state's dismal failure to educate its children

Black families are leading an exodus from public and private schools

I spoke with Jason Littlefield about his work with EmpowerEd Pathways, and how SEL was taken over by woke ideology. The effects that woke SEL and curriculum is harming children and the attacks on Enlightenment values.
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Soapbox A MARSHALL PLAN FOR BLACK LIVES Nandini Patwardhan Originally from India, I have lived in the US since the 1980s. I am a grandmother, a writer…

Two workshops are planned this summer for a discussion with Jason Littlefield and Erec Smith about the approach to race

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is a hot topic these days, especially because of its adoption of the tenets of Critical Social Justice in K-12 schools. The mere fact that learning focused on children’s emotional development is causing an uproar may be as surprising as it is concerning. Who could...

FAIR Perspectives: In this episode, we speak with Dr. Erec Smith. We discuss his field of rhetoric, what led him to it, African-American Vernacular English versus Standard English, the implications of what activists call "linguistic justice

Opinion. At the 2022 Conference on College Composition and Communication, the flagship conference in the field of rhetoric and composition, prominent scholars participated in a panel on proper learning outcomes and anti-racist teaching practices.

Othersuch Constructs @benjaminboyce Olympia, WA. Producing media that deepens discourse.

May 11, 2021 Keri interviews Jason Littlefield. Jason is an educator passionate about the health and well-being of individuals and the preservation/restoration of human liberalism. He is the executive director of EmpowerED Pathways (which you can find at empoweredpathways.org) and author of the...

This study examines the impact on student achievement of implementing a bundle of best practices from high-performing charter schools into low-performing, traditional public schools in Houston, Texas using a school-level randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental comparisons

We examine charter schools across the quality spectrum in order to learn which practices separate high-achieving from low-achieving schools. An expansive data collection and analysis project in New York City charter schools yielded an index of five educational practices that explains nearly half...

Acting white was once a label used by scholars, writing in obscure journals, to characterize academically inclined, but allegedly snobbish, minority students who were shunned by their peers.