socialist party of america

School is now back in session. And children’s minds are impressionable vessels. We trust their teachers to take precious care of them. Now, with far-right activists, with a Glen Beck tilt pushing for more Jesus and less Darwin, working to reshape the academic landscape in schools, colleges and universities across the country we will soon know without having to wonder “Why Johnny Can’t Think Critically.” But the resistance to shift from the millennia–long opuses of dead white heterosexual men to a multicultural perspective including the scholarship of women, gays and lesbians, and people of color is viewed, by many, as a “dumbing-down” effect of America’s educational curriculum.