Hidden inside Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan is a provision that combines with other COVID legislation to make $190 billion available to help K-12 schoolsย upgrade their curricula toย Newsela, an online platform run by a progressive former teacher who is dedicated to teaching Critical Race Theory in public schools.
It is a resource that educators across the country told Accuracy in Media about using time and time again.
Today, the company boasts that it has more than 40 million registered students with 3.3 million teachers. It has published more than 15,000 texts and adds more content daily. That content has been made available in 90 percent of schools.
โWe must address two awful truths: that many Black students and educators are in pain, and that institutional and individual racism is pervasive within our schools,โย said Matthew Gross, the founder and CEO of Newsela.
โNow more than ever, it is our moral obligation to support those experiencing trauma, and to cut racism at the root before it spreads outside the walls of our schools into larger society,โ added Gross.
To accomplish this objective, Newsela has teamed up with radical content providers like theย Zinn Education Project,ย ย the 1619 Project, and theย Southern Poverty Law Center, along with more mainstream news sources to provide Critical Race Theory content into the classroom to promote Marxist ideas like โequity,โ and โsocial justiceโ that โeducates [children] on the issues, alongside the tools to discuss and take action,โ in words of Gross.
The result has been to land Newsela on the list of fastest-growing companies as complied byย accounting company Deloitteย and for Fast Companyย to call the platform one of the most innovative companies in America today.
Gross emphasizes the โtrustedโ nature of the 175 publishers that Newsela uses to teach America's most impressionable students, but the partners Newsela uses to push an agenda that's antithetical to the pursuit of the American Dream and cause controversy wherever it's taught.
Again and again, Accuracy in Media captured educators across the country in hidden-camera investigations admitting to teaching material that was banned in their states and proudly saying they would always find a workaround. Many of those educators cited Newsela as one of those workarounds.
The 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory may be banned from being taught in their district. But that same content can be shared with students under the banner of โNewsela,โ which does not raise alarms with parents like mentioning 1619 or The New York Times directly. That โfunctionalityโ extends to many other topics parents and school boards have found objectionable.
Far from being from the โtrustedโ sources that Newsela claims, the company pushes the most radical, dangerous content every day inside and outside the classroom.ย ย
It's content that even hadย academics as far back as 1998ย warning that CRT is โspreading a range of unbaked antiblack conspiracy theories, trying to transform social pathologies into new cultural paradigms.โ
And this is the heart of the newest, most innovative, teaching platform in your kids' schools โ a daily textbook that will teach them about the world and how it works, and determine what kind of citizens they will become.
This article originally appeared in Accuracy in Media. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions ofย American Liberty News. Republished with permission.
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What jackasses decided that this drivel needed to be taught to our children??IT’s just another way to tear down all that’s good in this country.
Children DON’T NEED THIS CRAP THAT YOU WANT TO STUFF IN
WHAT’S LEFT OF THEIR SMALL BRAINS.YOU ALL NEED A GOOD
HORSE WHIPPING!!
โโฆInstitutional and individual racism is pervasive within our schoolsโฆโ How can that be when most big city school systems are owned and controlled by blacks?
Apparently you donโt realize that you answered your own question.
Get OUT of the Public Ed System ALL states
This gets defunded January 20, 2025.
Prostitution?
Howard Zinn was an America hating communist and the SPLC is a communist front. Throw in Barack Obama who is a Marxist Revolutionary who advocated for the violent overthrow of the United States when he was in the communist club at Occidental College and it’s very plain to see what’s going down in this country. if people keep voting the demcommunist ticket we’re either going to have a civil war or lose this beautiful nation.
The public school system is a dismal failure. Defund it now and disband the Department of Education.