Henry Giroux: The Nazification of American Education
An unimagined catastrophe characterizes how American education is being shaped by far-right Republican Party.
An unimagined catastrophe characterizes how American education is being shaped by far-right Republican Party.
Ignorance. A vacuum of understanding, whether from native stupidity or arrogant disregard, of the underlying issues, the functions of government, the lessons of history, the trustworthiness of information and the evaluation of evidence.
Public education is now being refashioned in ways reminiscent of earlier authoritarian regimes. This is evident given the Republican Party’s efforts along with conservative groups to remove progressive books about race, gender, and sexuality from libraries and schools.
Banned in Tucson By Matthew Rothschild, January 19, 2012 Â The Progressive What happened last week in Tucson was outrageous. The Tucson Unified School District, after voting to ban Mexican American Studies, went into the classrooms and took books away from young people, books that the state, in its hateful law, has deemed unacceptable. These More