Education beat: Teach Equality, Not CRT

“How our kids learn our history will, inevitably, shape how they behave when they take on the responsibilities of citizenship when they are adults,” notes Richard Samuelson at RealClearPolitics. Critical race theory follows “a simplified ‘whites are bad’ and ‘minorities good’ line,” but replacing “the stigmatization of blacks with stigmatization of whites is unlikely to work.” For young children, who “have yet to learn US history” at all, “teaching Americans to be proud of their country, even as they seek to improve it, is much more likely to bear fruit.” The best strategy is to “focus on our common humanity and citizenship in earlier years and to bring in the tensions between national and racial and ethnic identities later on.” But “many of our professional educators are . . . sustaining racial separation” instead.