Opinion
How lesson-plan transparency will improve learning across NC
The new “Academic Transparency Act" lets parents know what’s being covered in the classroom while empowering teachers to build off the success of their peers.
Opinion
Latest Kendi disclosures highlight Charlotte-Meck Schools’ extravagance
There is an aphorism that every movement starts as a cause, becomes a business, and devolves into a racket. The recent disclosures regarding Ibram X. Kendi, the avatar of antiracism; and the institute founded under his auspices at Boston University, indicate that antiracism may well be into its third phase. On his way to monetizing...
Opinion
One nation, super-duper divisible
In high school, I was assigned The Atlantic reading “One Nation, Slightly Divisible” by David Brooks, where he describes adventuring from his home in Montgomery County, Maryland, to Franklin County, Pennsylvania. After crossing what he terms “the Meatloaf Line” from blue America to red America, Brooks details countless comparisons between the two—the “sophisticated and cosmopolitan” center...
Opinion
The absurdities of ideological driven science
In the 21st century, woke progressivism has inundated itself in mass culture, academic institutions, and left-wing political policy. However, in its most recent expansion it has perniciously invaded scientific institutions in an attempt to totalize a political agenda. In seeking to have a totalizing narrative, woke progressivism attempts to leave no stone unturned. The insatiable...
Opinion
Teaching critical race theory is not civil rights history
Christianity remains the strongest anecdote to CRT because it stands against the materialist worldview that rejects the existence of God or that humans have souls and a destiny beyond this world.
Opinion
Review: Critical Race Theory leans heavily on false history and Marxist worldview
Backers of Critical Race Theory correctly surmised that economic arguments alone were failing to adequately transform free societies toward a Marxist takeover.
Opinion
Is woke ideology similar to Nazism?
NC Senator Julie Mayfield, D-Buncombe, said, “[b]ut he is not a Black woman, and I can’t disagree with the voices that say we just need more of that perspective.” Erica Smith, former NC Senator stated, “Do we need another white man in the Senate? No, we do not.” Lori Gilcrist, director of a nonprofit, told...
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‘Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,’ expert says about first round of CRT task force submissions
Editor’s note: The submissions are from concerned parents and teachers who highlighted student assignments on white privilege and systemic racism and pressured ‘Equity’ training for staff as examples of the promotion of the controversial ideology in public schools. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson in March announced the launch of a task force to address growing concern...
Opinion
Critical race theory seeks to recast America’s foundational beliefs
Published below are the full and unedited remarks of NC Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, on the threat to critical race theory to American society and its founding principles. Berger offered up the remarks on July 14. Certain Enlightenment Era concepts have defined American culture since our nation’s founding. Sometimes referred to as “classical liberalism,”...
Opinion
Irrational arguments plague critical race theory
It has become apparent that critical race theory (CRT) supporters are now engaging in illogical arguments to convey the doctrine as something other than what it is. As if to purport it as separate from critical theory and Marxism. This would be like saying America has never been influenced by English culture, and it just...
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Robinson, Senate leader Berger blast Charlotte schools’ link to Critical Race Theory
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and the Senate’s top officer are calling out Charlotte-Mecklenburg school leaders, after the state’s second-largest school system paid $25,000 to a top proponent of Critical Race Theory. The payment covered Ibram X. Kendi’s virtual presentation last week at the Charlotte school district’s Summer Leadership Conference. “This is clear and direct evidence...
