The Daily Wire recently sat down with former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to discuss her new book &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hostages-No-More-Education-American/dp/1546002014">Hostages No More</a>: The Fight For Education Freedom And The Future Of The American Child.&#8221;
DW: Secretary DeVos, thank you for joining The Daily Wire. Your new book opens by reflecting on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/glenn-youngkin-outlines-his-plan-to-make-virginias-education-system-number-one-in-nation">Glenn Youngkin’s</a> surprise win in the race for Governor of Virginia. Why was that an important race?
DeVos: Well, I think what happened in that Virginia race really brought into focus for many people what they were sort of feeling and noticing, and when Terry McAuliffe doubled down on his statement that no parents really should be involved in their kids’ education, many people thought he would roll it back. No. Instead, he doubled down by having Randi Weingarten as his capper to the last night of his campaign. It really set up a clear delineation for folks. He really personified the Democrats’ position — that they really do fall in lockstep with the teachers union. Many parents realized the last two years they’re really not in charge, and so that race kind of helped bring all that into focus in a major way.
DW: What’s taking place today in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-dems-say-holding-an-election-for-loudoun-school-board-this-year-would-subvert-democracy">Loudoun County, Virginia</a>, is reminiscent of the battles Former Governor Scott Walker faced in Wisconsin with the teachers unions. Do you think we will see more of these battles?
DeVos: I do. We’ve seen a lot of the head-to-head in a number of states over the years, and I think that’s going to continue to accelerate. The status quo — teachers and school unions and all of their allies — they’ve continued to double down on their position, which is: do not allow any kind of competition to what we’ve got going here. In fact, their attacks on charter schools — which are, as we know, a form of choice — have continued to look at charters as something to be rolled back and defeated, if possible, and they have a complicit administration in Washington, D.C. right now. The First Lady is a member of the NEA, and my successor put into the office of the Secretary of Education — the secretary’s personal office — a <a href="https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/early-education-department-appointees-have-links-to-jill-biden-teachers-unions/2021/01">teachers union liaison</a> as a staff position. So, it shows where the priorities are.
DW: We’ve all heard about ‘The Swamp’ in Washington, D.C. over the years. What was your experience with ‘The Swamp’?
DeVos: Well, I knew that a federal agency would be a large bureaucracy. I did not fully appreciate, until I started working there, how formidable the bureaucracy is and how they really can thwart you accomplishing a lot of things. I cite several examples, in the book, of mind-boggling ways in which the simplest of tasks and simplest of things were thwarted. It was really revealing in that way, but also convicting to me about how out-of-touch and how overgrown the federal workforce has become. There were good people who were career staffers in the department, and we found a number who worked well together, but the vast majority you could almost feel the animosity that radiated from them.
DW: You recently recorded the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hostages-No-More-Education-American/dp/B09S84D3D7/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1656621658&amp;sr=1-1">audiobook</a> version of “Hostages No More.” How long did it take to record the book?
DeVos: It took six days, four to seven hours a day, depending on what segments we were doing. Never having done it before, I didn’t really know what to expect. It was part of my lifelong learning experience! It really was fun, but it was also very fatiguing. I would say I probably like doing it, but I don’t love public speaking. I did stand the entire time because I knew that would be better for energy and breath.
DW: What is your message to young conservatives today?
DeVos: I actually articulated a number of those things in my book, specifically with regard to education. Let me echo a couple of them here. First of all, if they are young parents and are frustrated with what their options are, they should, number one, make sure that they’re supporting candidates for office that actually support education freedom policy — and then hold them to that. 
Number two, they can start a school. They can start with themselves, and they can do that best if they are empowered with the resources that are going to be spent on their child anyway — if they have the ability to control those resources.
We’ve seen a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homeschooling-rates-doubled-during-2020">dramatic increase</a> in homeschoolers in the last year-and-a-half. I actually think that’s a very positive thing, because I think we’re going to see a lot more creativity and a lot higher quality experience for the families that have chosen that direction. We need to just make sure that policy is going to support and encourage those who want to pursue that direction.
DW: You use the term ‘freedom’ throughout the book. Why? 
DeVos: I talk about it as ‘education freedom,’ as opposed to ‘school choice,’ because I think education freedom is a much more expansive term that can encompass a whole lot more than what you immediately think of when you talk about school choice. Because school choice, in most people’s minds, designates another building. It doesn’t mean building a whole bunch of other buildings; it means really getting creative about how education is delivered to kids in their K-12 years.
It really opens the door to customization of a child’s education. Some of the education reformers will refer to as ‘unbundling.’ In other words, you don’t go to school five days a week from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and then have three months off. You really look at what things you need to learn as your core subject areas and what things you’re most interested in learning, and then you figure out the best way and/or place to learn those things. It could be in the form of an apprenticeship that you start at middle school age. 
In West Michigan there’s a school that is an outdoor school, so kids are outdoors all day for their education. They choose to go there, and they love it. The teachers choose to teach there, and they love it. I use it as an example of ways to think differently.
DW: Who do you hope to reach with this new book?
DeVos: I hope that any parent who is concerned about their kids’ education and has an interest in seeing something different or better will look at this and read it. I hope that people who have a negative view of me — because of everything that was reported and/or how I was characterized — will look at it with an open mind. I tell a lot of stories about the experiences I had while in office. The great schools we focused on visiting, schools that were doing things differently and meeting kids’ needs and different ways. I would hope that readers would also become convicted to help be a part of changing policy to support education freedom for all kids.
<a href="https://betsydevos.com/">Betsy DeVos</a> served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Education from 2017-2021. Her new book &#8220;Hostages No More: The Fight For Education Freedom And The Future Of The American Child&#8221; (Center Street, June 2022) is now available on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hostages-No-More-Education-American/dp/1546002014">Amazon.com</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not represent those of The Daily Wire.

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‘Education Freedom For All Kids’: An Interview With Betsy DeVos, Former Secretary Of Education

Betsy DeVos

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Department of Education

Readers Pass

The following is an excerpt of an interview with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas by Michael Pack, taken from the new book &#8216;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Created-Equal-Clarence-Thomas-Words/dp/1684512700/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=">Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words</a>&#8216;.
The Democrats And The Media Run With It 
MP: The media and Democrats certainly jumped on this leak. What was your reaction? 
CT: This is the mob. That’s what it felt like. It just felt like the mob outside of the jail in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” They didn’t have their little robes on, but boy they were sanctimonious and they had their torches, which were maybe computers and things. But no, this was the mob; it wasn’t any more a trial than Salem had trials. 
MP: You mentioned the media circus, and we haven’t talked much about that, but that had been ongoing? 
CT: The media was always bad. They just pretend to be objective, but for the most part, they were part of the mob from the beginning. But it just got worse. When you have media people calling up friends and they ask “Do you have any dirt on this guy?” not, “What is the story?” Just dirt. That pretty much should tell you all. 
It goes back to when I was at the EEOC, that I was “controversial.” I was brand new. How can I be controversial? That means I don’t have the views that they’ve assigned to me. That’s the only controversial thing. So I had then effectively been caricatured. The media was not trying to find out facts; they were clearly a part of one team versus the other. There were a few who weren’t. 
MP: The media also went out to Pin Point, GA. 
CT: Initially when the media were told I was from Pin Point, they said Pin Point didn’t exist. And that was really funny. These guys know so much. They said “you’re a liar.” Who would lie about where you’re from? That’s easy to prove and who would lie about it? Every time you said something and they didn’t agree with you, you were a liar. One of the reporters went to Savannah and argued with my mother about the number of kids she had. How do you argue with a woman about the number of kids she had? I think she may have been there. She eventually had to tell them to leave. 
MP: How could the reporter be arguing about the number of children she had? 
CT: He said they can only find records for two kids. How can you be so arrogant to tell a woman how many kids she had? But I think that it is similarly arrogant to tell people what their views ought to be just because of their race. “I know what your views should be. I don’t know you, but since you’re black, your views should be this.” 
MP: Yes, I hear this still from your liberal critics. They say you are “a traitor to your race.” 
CT: Because you have views that you shouldn’t have. You say what race? The human race? Which race? It is absurd. I love it when you are looking at a white person telling you that and they just don’t see how laughable that is. 
MP: After it’s leaked, then Anita Hill has a press conference. Did you see that? 
CT: Oh God, no. 
MP: Did Ginni see it and tell you about it? 
CT: She watched and told me it was slickly done, that it was smooth, and there were a lot of professionals there. But what she described was not the person who worked for me. As I recall, [Anita] was portrayed as conservative (not true), that she was quite religious (that’d be the first I’d ever heard of that), and that she was demure (no way). That’s a nice image to paint but that wasn’t the person I knew. The person I knew was outspoken, could fly off the handle at people, get upset with people, a person who stormed into my office, could be pretty loud about things, and was quite liberal. She may have been religious but never professed to be that I knew of. 
<h4>Another Round 
“It was hard. I’m at the end of my line” </h4>
MP: Did you hear from Jack Danforth about the next stage for the hearings? 
CT: I get a call when I was at Larry Silberman’s house from Jack Danforth, Orrin Hatch, and Bob Dole. And they said that if [the full Senate] voted, then they couldn’t guarantee that I would be confirmed. Remember we’re dealing with a Democrat Senate and that they thought we needed to address this matter and it was determined that they would have another hearing.
MP: And how did you feel? 
CT: Not good. It was hard. I’m at the end of my line. I don’t know what they are going to do to me next. I still don’t know what I’m accused of doing, so you’re tormenting yourself. Did I say something? Did I make an offhand remark? Did I suggest something? And then you worry about what can they convince people that I have done. You got all these PR firms, and slick law firms, and interest groups. I’m just sitting there, I mean it’s my wife and me. We’re at home, and we have a couple of prayer partners who would come over and we’d pray and listen to music. The phone kept ringing and the news kept getting worse. Media was parked outside of our house, so you’re literally under siege. Now you don’t know what’s going to happen. You don’t know what they’re going to say next about you. You weren’t worried about what you’ve done. It’s like what can they convince the world that you’ve done. Because if they had made it this far with that, then they were going to go the whole way. 
MP: After the leak, the media just camped out at your house? 
CT: Yeah, they stayed, and then whenever we left, there would be a chase car and there was a motorcycle behind us. President [H.W.] Bush invited us to see him for reassurance. Senator Danforth rode with us to the White House, and we were followed by the press the entire way. It was in every possible way disconcerting and awful. We’d never been through anything like this. 
President Bush sat with me in the Oval Office. Virginia went for a walk with Mrs. Bush. The president apologized for getting me into this. I told him this wasn’t his fault, that he didn’t do anything to me. It should have been a great moment for a poor kid from the Deep South and the elites have turned it into a nightmare because of some thing they want. Not because of something I’ve done or some crime I’ve committed: because of something they want that they don’t think they’ll get with me. He assured me he was not going to withdraw [my nomination], that he was going to be with me to the end if I could hang in there, and again apologized for getting me into it.
This excerpt is taken from the new book &#8216;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Created-Equal-Clarence-Thomas-Words/dp/1684512700/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=">Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words</a>&#8216; from <a href="https://www.regnery.com/">Regnery Publishing</a>. The book was edited by Michael Pack and Mark Paoletta and is a companion piece to the blockbuster documentary &#8216;<a href="https://www.justicethomasmovie.com/">Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words.</a>&#8216; 

The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Clarence Thomas: ‘It Just Felt Like The Mob Outside Of The Jail In ‘To Kill A Mockingbird”

Clarence Thomas

Democrats

Get the popcorn ready: The Daily Wire&#8217;s explosive new film, &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman-official-trailer">What is a Woman?</a>&#8221; premieres Wednesday night at 8 p.m. ET, and watching it is as important as it is easy.
<ul>
<li>Simply go to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman-official-trailer">whatisawoman.com</a> to see the shocking trailer anytime.</li>
<li>At 8 p.m. ET, everyone will be able to watch The Daily Wire’s all-star show “Backstage,” featuring Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Jeremy Boreing, Michael Knowles, and Andrew Klavan, who will have a sharp and lively discussion before airing the documentary.</li>
<li>Then comes the main event, a watch party for all Daily Wire members, including new ones who will be able to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman-official-trailer">sign up here</a>.</li>
</ul>
Viewers will be stunned as they watch Walsh talk to ordinary citizens, medical professionals, and even African tribesmen in an effort to get answers to a question that has leftists triggered.
“The left will do whatever they can to make sure no one sees this movie,” Walsh said. “They know their ideology is based on lies and their logic is hollow and premiering the movie to a massive online audience will not only be an utter embarrassment to them but will send a message that they will not win this battle.”
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One of the surgeons in our documentary confesses to having mutilated the genitals of a 16 year old boy. The Left says this isn&#39;t happening. They&#39;re lying, as always. 
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In the documentary, Walsh sits down with the nation’s foremost advocates of radical gender theory, giving them the opportunity to state their case. Instead, they punt. Asked to defend Orwellian claims that natural sex and biology have nothing to do with a person’s identity, they instead deflect such questions to focus on Walsh’s supposedly “hateful” views.
“What Is A Woman?” gives viewers a jaw-dropping look at:
<ul>
<li>Issues of gender dysphoria confusion that activists use to encourage sex-change operations on children not old enough to vote or drink.</li>
<li>Transgender (biologically male) athletes’ destruction of girls’ sports and the denial of opportunities for elite female athletes — particularly the case of NCAA women’s swimming champion Lia Thomas.</li>
<li>The Pronoun Police and the Left’s attempts to use character assassination and censorship to advance a radical agenda.</li>
<li>Absurd claims about “birthing persons” and that “having a penis doesn’t make one male” — along with other lies and doublespeak used to mainstream radical gender theory.</li>
<li>The disturbing case of male-registered sex offender Darren Merager, who claims to be female and who is accused of terrorizing under-aged girls by walking around the women’s locker room in a Los Angeles spa with an erect penis.</li>
<li>The three great casualties of this radical movement:</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Women, whose identities are being appropriated and erased by activists who shun science and biology.</li>
<li>Children, who are, at best, being indoctrinated to believe lies about basic facts and, at worst, guided into harmful, irreversible medical “transition” procedures.</li>
<li>And, ultimately, the truth.</li>
</ol>
Join the live “What Is a Woman?” watch party June 1, 2022, at 8 p.m. ET at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman-official-trailer">WhatisaWoman.com</a>.

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How To Watch ‘What Is A Woman?’; The Daily Wire’s Explosive New Movie

How To Watch 'What Is A Woman?'; The Daily Wire's Explosive New Movie

Ben Shapiro

Matt Walsh

The Daily Wire

What Is A Woman

It started with what seemed like a fairly simple query: What is a woman?
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Matt Walsh soon learned that it was one of the most controversial and vexing questions one can ask in the Western world today — and one not even a future U.S. Supreme Court justice can answer. On June 1, at 8 p.m. ET, The Daily Wire will <a href="http://WhatisaWoman.com">premiere</a> Walsh&#8217;s explosive new documentary, &#8220;What Is A Woman?&#8221; in which he talks to ordinary citizens, medical professionals, and even African tribesmen in an effort to get answers to a question that has leftists triggered.
“The left will do whatever they can to make sure no one sees this movie,” Walsh said. “They know their ideology is based on lies and their logic is hollow and premiering the movie to a massive online audience will not only be an utter embarrassment to them but will send a message that they will not win this battle.”
The documentary will premiere on The Daily Wire’s all-star show &#8220;Backstage,&#8221; featuring Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Jeremy Boreing, Michael Knowles, and Andrew Klavan, who will have a sharp and lively discussion before airing the documentary. Viewers can join the watch party at <a href="http://WhatisaWoman.com">WhatisaWoman.com</a>. Immediately following the movie, Walsh will take questions live from viewers and give his first-hand perspective of the groundbreaking film.
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In the documentary, Walsh sits down with the nation’s foremost advocates of radical gender theory, giving them the opportunity to state their case. Instead, they punt. Asked to defend Orwellian claims that natural sex and biology have nothing to do with a person’s identity, they instead deflect such questions to focus on Walsh’s supposedly “hateful” views.
&#8220;What Is A Woman?&#8221; gives viewers a jaw-dropping look at:
<ul>
<li>Issues of gender dysphoria confusion that activists use to encourage sex-change operations on children not old enough to vote or drink.</li>
<li>Transgender (biologically male) athletes’ destruction of girls’ sports and the denial of opportunities for elite female athletes — particularly the case of NCAA women&#8217;s swimming champion Lia Thomas.</li>
<li>The Pronoun Police and the Left’s attempts to use character assassination and censorship to advance a radical agenda.</li>
<li>Absurd claims about “birthing persons” and that “having a penis doesn’t make one male” — along with other lies and doublespeak used to mainstream radical gender theory.</li>
<li>The disturbing case of male-registered sex offender Darren Merager, who claims to be female and who is accused of terrorizing under-aged girls by walking around the women’s locker room in a Los Angeles spa with an erect penis.</li>
<li>The three great casualties of this radical movement:</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Women, whose identities are being appropriated and erased by activists who shun science and biology.</li>
<li>Children, who are, at best, being indoctrinated to believe lies about basic facts and, at worst, guided into harmful, irreversible medical “transition” procedures.</li>
<li>And, ultimately, the truth.</li>
</ol>
Join the live &#8220;What Is a Woman?&#8221; watch party June 1, 2022, at 8 p.m. ET at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman-official-trailer">WhatisaWoman.com</a>.

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The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh To Premiere ‘What Is A Woman?’ Documentary In Online Watch Party

The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh To Premiere 'What Is A Woman?' Documentary In Online Watch Party

Daily Wire

Jeremy Boreing

Tony Pennay, Chief Learning Officer at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, shared with us how he sees the future of education shifting from what we’ve always known to what it may become. 
<h4>How have students best learned to develop soft skills, like communication, decision-making, and leadership in the past? What does data and evidence tell us about these skills now?</h4>
Some methods of teaching are timeless. But what I found teaching middle school English and social studies is for students to immerse themselves in activities outside of the textbook. That’s been the best way for kids to learn these essential soft skills.
In fact, when we look back to the medieval apprentice system, kids learned through hands-on practice of their respective craft or trade. The same principle applies to students who aspire to be strong leaders. It takes practice. 
When I taught world history, students retained the information better when the lesson revolved around a simulation. When learning about the feudal system, for example, we would build castles out of desks. Students would then simulate battles between feudal lords and knights and fend off attacks. This allowed them to connect to a world beyond themselves.
The same is largely true of durable soft skills. You learn to communicate better by communicating. Students need a real world context to apply their knowledge. 
<h4>Have you seen a shift in students’ comfort levels and development of certain soft skills from years past to now? What do you think has caused this change?</h4>
Yes, I have seen a shift in students’ comfort levels, due in part to two factors: The pandemic and the rising tides of polarization. During the pandemic, our educational system seemed to shift away from practicing the true art of civil debate.
Civil debate is no longer seen as a tool in the classroom, which is an essential method to developing a whole host of soft skills. It’s not that students are unable to engage in polarizing topics. Each year, 25,000 – 50,000 students are involved in field trips, scholarships, and summer leadership programs at the Reagan Library and the Nation’s Capital. Not all of them agree with everything President Reagan stood behind.
Lately, it’s been up to the students to take the initiative and develop their own critical thinking, decision-making, and ultimately leadership skills. And this is partially due to shrinking social studies programs, which is doing a disservice to students and the landscape of civic education. It’s that historical context that’s important to understand why this country is a special place in the history of the world. 
Even non-civic educators<a href="https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/BrookingsPolicy2020_BigIdeas_Winthrop_CivicEducation.pdf"> agree</a> that civic education should be incorporated in the realm of “21st-century skills.” Civic education, the art of debate, and the development of durable soft skills are very interconnected.
As Ronald Reagan said in a radio address to the nation on education, 
“Since the founding of this nation, education and democracy have gone hand in hand… Jefferson and the Founders believed a nation that governs itself, like ours, must rely upon an informed and engaged electorate.”
Debating from a civic framework allows students to dive into information about history and policy while also forcing them to deeply understand the opposite side of the argument.
<h4>The pandemic certainly created a shift in learning. What are the most positive discoveries made about student learning during the pandemic? What have been the most detrimental?</h4>
Despite the pandemic’s undeniable impact on learning, I’ve been extremely encouraged to discover students still eager to intellectually grow. Middle school and high school are when kids begin to form conceptions of themselves as young leaders.
 While the Senate was conducting their Supreme Court nomination hearings earlier this month, I had the privilege to witness<a href="https://www.reaganfoundation.org/education/scholarship-programs/great-communicator-debate-series/competition-information/"> kids across the country</a> critically debate on the topic of instituting term limits on Supreme Court Justices. 
Whether students debated remotely or in-person, their well-crafted, policy-focused arguments leapt off the screen and from the podium. These kids were engaging in high-level policy debates on-par with, and in some instances surpassing, their senior counterparts. In preparing for their academic debates, they carefully examined everything from the Constitution to a long history of policies and political debate.
They then had to summarize and deliver the most effective arguments and illustrations for their side. By grappling with resources and acquiring a deep understanding of the opposition, these kids were able to unlock the power of critical thinking and gain confidence in their own public speaking and communication skills.
On top of that, the students left the competitions as friends. It’s brought me an overwhelming sense of hope to see the next generation dodge the waves of polarization through civil debate.
The most detrimental has been the lack of in-person leadership opportunities. The pandemic has exacerbated these lingering concerns surrounding the soft skills gap. This is because our kids missed out on a crucial component of their education that is integral to cultivating soft skills and leadership – extracurricular activities and learning opportunities.
Much learning takes place outside of the classroom. Growing up, I was very involved in extracurricular activities—from Boy Scouts, to student government, to sports—and I have found many skills that have translated well in my academic and professional career I learned through these experiences. 
<h4>What have you found most surprising about students’ learning styles through your work with Reagan Academy?</h4>
 I have been most surprised, not necessarily by their learning styles, but by their ability to practice historical empathy. Watching students learn from president Reagan and his leadership journey, students are often  inspired to embark on a similar leadership journey. All from engaging with our program materials.
 As a former history teacher, overcoming the tendency to read history backwards was one of my greatest challenges. It clearly continues to be an educational struggle in the classroom today.
<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/30036827?seq=3">Historical empathy</a> calls for a deep understanding of people’s actions in the past. Multiple forms of evidence are needed, along with a healthy degree of intellectual separation from the topic and a basic understanding of the time period being studied.
Unfortunately, today we tend to see history with a present-day lens without appropriate contextualization. We often find historical figures and leaders under assault for mistakes they made hundreds of years ago. It is essential to invite students to suspend their present world views when examining the past. Rather than shield our kids from debate, we should encourage them to embrace it. 
Through our hands-on, community-building Reagan Academy<a href="https://www.reaganfoundation.org/education/e-learning/"> online courses</a>, we aim to empower students with these very skills.
<h4>What are some of the best pieces of advice you can give parents who may be reading this? How can they encourage and support their child to become effective communicators and well-rounded citizens?</h4>
I strongly advise parents to encourage their kids to participate in a variety of extracurricular activities. Help them explore passions outside of the classroom. This is one of the main lessons of pandemic learning. 
For example, <a href="https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1302954.pdf">Studies</a> have also shown that competitive debate participation is linked to improved academic performance and college readiness. It allows students to confront varying viewpoints in an active, enriching way. Studies have also shown debate has positive outcomes for strong social-emotional development and self-efficacy. 
With that in mind, I advise parents to look to outside sources to put them ahead of the game and make them more competitive for university admission preparedness and employment readiness down the road.
It is critical to get kids out of the mindset that school and learning is not just about GPA, it’s a lifelong journey of intellectual growth and development that should continually be pursued outside of the classroom in order to be a well-rounded citizen. 
<h4>What do you see as the most important aspects of educating future American leaders?</h4>
I think the most important aspects of molding effective future leaders are to bring back civic learning, historical empathy, and informed, civil debate. 
Ronald Reagan famously called for an “informed patriotism.” History instruction today is often presented with bias or a particular slant. Conclusions about what it all means in the broader context come prepackaged.
We should trust the intellectual ability of our children. Present history with all its complications, with a multitude of primary sources, and then allow students to interpret the story. The American story is compelling and interesting. When we present it as it happened, students will develop their own love for it.
Cultivating conversations around civics and history is essential to educating the future leaders of America.

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How Has Education Changed Since the Pandemic and Where Is It Headed Now?

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The Media Research Center (MRC) announced Tuesday that Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak has won its first-ever MRC Bulldog Award for “Outstanding Investigative Journalist.”
Rosiak was among six Bulldog Award winners, including Fox News host Mark Levin (“Outstanding Talk Show Host”), New York Post columnist Miranda Devine (“Outstanding Columnist”), and conservative radio host Dan Bongino (“Outstanding Podcast”).
“Today’s MRC Bulldog Award recipients have been selected after careful consideration,” MRC President Brent Bozell said. “Their impactful work is trusted and respected by Americans nationwide, unlike the work of the left-wing operatives that call themselves ‘journalists.’ As the liberal media celebrate themselves with Pulitzers, we wanted to shine a light on the real journalists who are greatly dedicated to informing the American public on stories the legacy media ignores.”
Rosiak received the award for his investigative work uncovering the sexual assaults in Loudoun County, Virginia, public schools. His <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says">piece</a> published by The Daily Wire in October 2021 documented the sexual assault of a girl in a Loudoun high school bathroom. 
Rosiak’s revelations “redefined the Virginia gubernatorial and attorney general campaigns,” MRC said in a press release, as voters in Virginia overwhelmingly voted for Republican candidates promising to give parents more say in their children&#8217;s education. 
MRC says it is committed to &#8220;neutralizing leftist bias in the news media and popular culture has had a critical impact on the way Americans view the liberal media.&#8221; The research center prides itself in educating the public about Left-wing media bias.
Other winners of the MRC Bulldog Awards included The Reload founder Stephen Gutowski for “Outstanding Blogger” and Washington Free Beacon Media Reporter Drew Holden for “Outstanding Social Media Personality.” 
The Bulldog Award winners were voted on by a panel of judges nominated by the public.

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Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak Wins Award For ‘Outstanding’ Investigative Journalist

Luke Rosiak Wins Award For 'Outstanding Investigative Journalist'

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This last week found a guy with billions of dollars at his fingertips seeking to control the message. No, not Elon Musk — President Joe Biden. 
Just as the billionaire entrepreneur moved to take over Twitter, Biden created the Orwellian-named &#8220;Disinformation Governance Board,&#8221; which (trust us) is going to ferret out misinformation and feed you all the yummy Soylent Green you need. Musk summed up America&#8217;s sentiment in a single word: &#8220;Discomforting.&#8221; 
Meanwhile, top U.S. immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci said the U.S. is through the &#8220;pandemic phase,&#8221; only to be refuted by none other than top immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci, who said, yeah, no. And Biden stumbled into the headlines by telling teachers that children are &#8220;yours when they&#8217;re in the classroom.&#8221; (Will we ever get rid of those pesky parents?!) Oh, Joe. 
Here&#8217;s your latest installment of Washington Wire.
Biden&#8217;s Orwellian Maneuver
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is working to create a “Disinformation Governance Board” to counter what they <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/is-federal-censorship-coming-biden-admin-creating-disinformation-governance-board-report">determine to be false information</a> relating to national security.
On Wednesday, Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/04/27/fauci-pulls-out-of-whcd-is-biden-next-00028131">reported</a> that DHS is creating the board “to coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia.”
While Russia has certainly been guilty of putting out disinformation around the globe, American intelligence officials have also labeled factual information — like Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” — as Russian propaganda as well. Even the mainstream media now admit that the contents of that laptop were real.
Nina Jankowicz will now reportedly head the new DHS board as executive director. Jankowicz was one of the prominent liberals who appears to believe that the laptop was Russian disinformation.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) responded, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-torches-biden-over-admins-new-orwellian-disinformation-governance-board">saying</a> that the move was “Orwellian.”
“Leave it to Democrats to think free speech is the problem and more government is the solution,” McCarthy said in an exclusive statement to The Daily Wire. “The notion that the same party that spent four years promoting the Russia collusion hoax, suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story, and equated parents to domestic terrorists believes it has the credibility to tell Americans what is true is laughable.”
“And it is telling that the person who would run Biden’s Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board is a political activist who has a long history of falling for and spreading disinformation,” McCarthy continued. 
“It is easy to imagine this person abusing the term ‘disinformation’ to suppress facts and spin away inconvenient truths about the administration’s many failures, including their failures to secure the border. The idea that the federal government should control speech sounds uncomfortably close to the Thought Police. Biden must immediately abandon his plan to create a modern-day Ministry of Truth,&#8221; he said.
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) called for the immediate dissolution of the board in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dissolve-this-monstrosity-immediately-josh-hawley-unloads-on-mayorkas-in-letter-demanding-the-end-of-disinformation-board">scathing letter</a> directed to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Hawley tweeted screenshots of the letter, dated April 28, on Thursday morning with the following caption: “The Administration that activated the FBI against parents at school board meetings now has created a government Disinformation Board to monitor all Americans’ speech. It’s a disgrace. Joe Biden &amp; Secretary Mayorkas: dissolve this monstrosity immediately.”
And then, billionaire and newly-minted social media mogul Elon Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-weighs-in-on-bidens-misinformation-governance-board">weighed in</a>. 
“The government is creating a misinformation governance board,” comedian and conservative host Steven Crowder tweeted Thursday. “Who else did something like that? Oh I remember, the Nazi’s. And there’s some data showing some interesting things going on post-[Elon Musk]’s Twitter takeover!”
“Discomforting,” Musk directly replied to the tweet.
Fauci&#8217;s Doublespeak
Top U.S. immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-pandemic-phase-of-covid-19-over-fauci-no-it-isnt">declared</a> last Tuesday that the “pandemic phase” of COVID-19 is over in the U.S.
But that was refuted on Wednesday — by top U.S. immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci.
On Tuesday, Fauci sat down with Judy Woodruff of “PBS NewsHour,” who asked Fauci: “Here we are. It’s the end of April. It’s the spring of 2022. How close are we to the end of the pandemic?”
“We are certainly, right now, in this country out of the pandemic phase,” Fauci replied. “Namely, we don’t have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level right now.”
“So, if you’re saying, are we out of the pandemic phase in this country, we are,” he added.
But on Wednesday, Fauci walked it all back.
“We are in a different moment of the pandemic,” Fauci told the Associated Press on Wednesday. While the U.S. has “decelerated and transitioned into more of a controlled phase” of the virus, he added “by no means does that mean the pandemic is over.”
Despite Fauci&#8217;s original assertion that the pandemic is over, CNN reported that he has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-says-the-pandemic-phase-is-over-but-its-still-too-risky-for-him-to-attend-white-house-correspondents-dinner">backed out of plans</a> to attend the upcoming White House Correspondents’ Association dinner — which he was scheduled to attend as a guest of ABC News.
“He recently decided to abandon those plans and inform ABC that he would no longer attend because of an individual assessment of his own personal risk,” CNN reported.
In one other COVID-19 development, it turns out most of us have already had it — whether we know it or not.
A new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that a majority of Americans, both adults and children, have been infected with COVID-19.
Nearly 60% of adults and about 75% of children have coronavirus antibodies, indicating that they had been infected with COVID-19 and its variants, according to data collected from a study of blood samples across the country. That’s a huge rise from December 2021, when just 34% of Americans had COVID-19 antibodies.
The Ministry of (Un)truth
Biden on Wednesday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-speech-honoring-gender-race-teacher-biden-tells-conservatives-to-stop-making-teachers-the-target-of-the-culture-wars">accused conservatives</a> of making teachers a “target of the culture wars” as he honored an Ohio educator who teaches high schoolers about race, gender, and oppression.
“Teaching is one of the hardest jobs in this country,” Biden said. “Today, there are too many politicians trying to score political points trying to ban books—even math books. I mean, did you ever think… that when you’d be teaching you’d be worrying about book burnings and banning books? All because it doesn’t fit somebody’s political agenda.”
“American teachers have dedicated their lives to teaching our children and lifting them up,” he said. “We ought to stop making them a target of the culture wars. That’s where this is going.”
Then Biden went further, repeatedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-tells-teachers-children-are-yours-when-theyre-in-the-classroom">telling the teachers</a> gathered at the White House that school children are “like yours when they’re in the classroom.”
“They’re not someone else’s children, they’re our children,” he said. “And they are the kite strings that literally lift our national ambitions aloft… Think about it. If you got to do one thing to make sure the nation succeeded in the next two generations, what would you do? I would say, literally, have the best-educated public in the world.”
Biden emphasized that “we have an obligation to help them… reach their potential.”
“You have heard me say it many times about our children, but it is true, they’re all our children. And the reason you are the teachers of the year is because you recognize that,” he said. “They’re not somebody else’s children. They’re like yours when they’re in the classroom.”

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Biden’s Orwellian Maneuver

Biden's Orwellian Maneuver, Fauci's Doublespeak, And The Ministry Of (Un)Truth

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Speaking at Iowa State University on Wednesday night, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro passionately defended the traditional two-parent home comprised of a mother and father when asked for parenting advice, saying, “When it comes to defending our own values, it’s not that I deserve the liberty to raise my family as I see fit, it’s that my system for raising my family is correct, and it should be defended, and it deserves defense on its merits.”
A young man at the Q&amp;A following Shapiro’s speech, titled “American Wokeness Must Be Destroyed,” asked, “I got a little question for all the amazing men and women out in the crowd today who are looking to be parents in the future. Because in a world that is becoming exponentially more and more liberal and woke, how might we go about raising the next generation, especially since we can’t shield them from everything?”
“I mean, this is my chief concern, so as I say, I have three kids, 8, 5 and 2, and they are the only thing I care about in life,” Shapiro replied, joking to the SRO crowd of thousands, “I love you guys, but I care about my kids.”
“And the only thing I care about when it comes to my kids is protecting their innocence and protecting the value system that I wish to transmit to them,” he continued. “That means that I live in a community of like-minded people. I think that is deeply, deeply important.”
“I’m a big fan of the Big Sort,” he said, referring to the idea that Americans would migrate to areas where politically like-minded people live. “I think it’s a really good thing. I think that people who have conservative values should live in areas where people reflect those values and send their kids to schools that reflect those values. That’s why I send my kids to a private Jewish day school. That’s why I’m a big fan of school vouchers. That’s why I think that what Ron DeSantis did in Florida with the Parental Rights in Education Bill is extraordinarily important.”
Then he segued to some advice for parents: “The biggest thing that I would say is actually a piece of advice that my parents gave me, which is always take your kids seriously. If you take your kids seriously from the time that they’re very little and take their concerns seriously, they’ll keep talking to you as you get older.” Shapiro then referred to the possibility of that not happening, which he said “is my great fear.”
“You know, I’m not really in a position to give full parenting advice because my oldest is 8 years old; we’ll see how they turn out when they’re 25,” he admitted. “To the point where they are right now, keeping open communication and also setting very clear rules, and making clear that there are societal roles that are necessary to be filled. I think that human happiness, too often we tie human happiness to various systems of ethics — you have virtue ethics, which is sort of Aristotelian ideals about virtue and the Golden Mean and trying to cultivate in yourself characteristics that make you a better human being. And then you have deontological ethics, which is sort of Kantian ethics — you just apply this rule and this rule, then our kids will be okay.”
“What I really think is that the way you bring up kids is to fulfill certain roles, which means putting responsibility on them very early,” he asserted. “So, for my kids, they take care of each other. For my kids, they go out and do charity events. For my kids, they go to synagogue, and they go on a regular basis. Giving them things to do and teaching them that these roles in life are very important. That the role of mommy, which they see when they see my wife operate in that role every single day, modeling that, is supremely important for my daughters. And the role of father, which is what my son — if you ask my son what he wants to be, it’s the cutest thing in the world, if you ask my son what he wants to be today, he always says a daddy. That is his number one answer.”
“And that’s what all young boys should say,” he declared. “So, bottom line is, you preserve those roles. I think we should be very aggressive in defending these roles, by the way. I think one of the mistakes that the Right makes when it comes to defending values is very often, we speak in terms of liberty, and that’s great when it comes to the government. But when it comes to defending our own values, it’s not that I deserve the liberty to raise my family as I see fit, it’s that my system for raising my family is correct, and it should be defended, and it deserves defense on its merits.”
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Shapiro At Iowa State Fiercely Defends Traditional Family: ‘My System For Raising My Family Is Correct And It Should Be Defended’

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It’s not easy being Joe Biden. The 46th president has been stepping in it his entire political career. Whether through unforced gaffes or horrible policies, Biden has made a mess of Washington, D.C., for nearly 50 years — though the mainstream media has swept most of it under the rug. But now as president, with the spotlight on him, not even CNN can hide Biden’s tarnished legacy. 
Had Joe Biden and the media cleaned up his unfortunate past mistakes like any smart shopper cleans their home with Naturally It’s Clean, perhaps Biden’s record would be as spotless and shiny as his dentures.  Let’s take a look at some of Joe’s biggest political messes, shall we? 
1) We’ll throw it back to his first time on the campaign trail in 1988. At a stop in New Hampshire,  then Senator Joe Biden began barking wildly at a voter, even challenging his IQ after a New Hampshire resident questioned Biden’s law school record. His outrageous outburst must be seen to be believed: 
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Biden, of course, was accused of plagiarism in law school and then busted for  plagiarism after copying Scottish politician Neil Kinnock’s speech. The evidence was there, right on the paper. But, had Biden used Naturally It&#8217;s Clean to polish his law school record or wipe clean Kinnock’s words from his speech, perhaps he wouldn’t have been busted.
2) Jumping forward to 2020, Biden kept up his antics by <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/03/10/biden-tells-autoworker-hes-full-of-s----in-tense-gun-rights-argument.html">telling</a> a Michigan auto worker that he was “full of s***” and being a “horses a**” after challenging the Democratic candidate on his support for the second amendment: 
Now, perhaps Biden simply couldn’t see what a jerk of himself he was making. The autoworker was wearing a hardhat, and like most hardhats, maybe it just needed a good polish. Had a Biden aide thought “Let’s put a little elbow grease, and make sure we use some Naturally It&#8217;s Clean on it,” maybe the worker’s helmet would reflect Biden’s anger. They didn’t and Biden made himself look like a clown. 
3) Somehow, Biden was elected president in 2020. Promptly upon taking office, Biden undid nearly every policy Trump had in place on the southern border. 
But, rather than try to clean up the supposed mess the proper way, Biden simply tore everything down and ripped up all the papers. 
Had he taken a methodical, thorough approach that efficiently tidied up whatever loose ends were needed, he could have solved the border crisis in no time. But he didn’t, and now America has the worst border crisis in decades. Somebody should have bought him Naturally It&#8217;s Clean to scrub away whatever bad parts of Trump’s executive orders there were, keeping the rest perfectly intact and pristine. 
4) We all remember when Biden tripped up the stairs on Air Force One this summer. It was embarrassing for the whole country. How could this have happened? Well, rumor has it around some parts of D.C. that Biden’s team had not been using Naturally It&#8217;s Clean on the stairs. They used some other brand. The result, it seems, was a slippery floor due to caustic cleaning chemicals.
Now, that’s just a rumor, and truthfully it may even be completely made up, but what is undoubtedly true is that the wide variety of products from Naturally It&#8217;s Clean using “enzyme-based” formulas are the “most effective solution for a very wide range of cleaning problems.” If they used that on the Air Force stairs, nobody would slip and fall unless they were distracted by staring at how clean it all looked.
5) We don’t offer free advice all the time to Leftists, but when we do, we are confident it will work wonders. 
Let’s think of something here  — Biden has a whole host policy messes he has to clean up as well. Inflation, supply chain issues, the grease trail left by slimeball politicians like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) each time they leave the White House — you know name it, Joe is in the thick of it.  In most Democratic areas, Americans are forced to smell the awfulness of a mask all day long and encouraged by Biden to do so. In short, absolutely everything from this White House is reeking up the place.  
So, hey Joe, most voters want to come home and be put at ease, take a deep breath and smell freshness while maybe enjoying a cocktail and forgetting about the world’s problems caused mostly by you.They also want to make sure they get the most bang for their buck (which is rapidly dwindling thanks to your Big Government spending policies). 
So here’s the advice, Joe: Buy products from Naturally It&#8217;s Clean, give The White House a good wipe down in hopes of getting rid of the grime from the D.C. Swamp, and show by example that Naturally It&#8217;s Clean is so efficient it will make even the Biden presidency look good. 
Buy Naturally It&#8217;s Clean <a href="https://naturallyitsclean.com/the-daily-wire?utm_source=DW&amp;utm_medium=Editorial&amp;utm_campaign=March2022">here</a>.

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Joe Biden’s Big Messes

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‘Americans Want Alternatives’ To Woke Entertainment: Daily Wire Dives Into Kids Content With Massive $100 Million Commitment

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The Centers for Disease and Control updated its COVID-19 death statistics last week, revealing that the agency had included an additional 72, 277 deaths that should not have been counted as COVID-19 deaths. 
The change impacted 26 states and all age groups. The CDC explained in a footnote that the overcount stemmed from a “coding logic error.” 
“The CDC also noted that some jurisdictions also include probable COVID cases in their death count and that back in August, the data on COVID deaths was changed after they identified a data discrepancy,” The Daily Wire’s Mairead Elordi explained on Morning Wire. “So they’re pretty cryptic on what exactly these errors were and why they happened, but the end result is that COVID deaths were apparently significantly overcounted.”
With a total of about 969,000 deaths from COVID-19, the extra deaths compose about 7.5% of that number. 416 extra pediatric COVID-19 deaths also represent a significant revision from the initial data. 
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“The huge change in the pediatric death count drops the estimate of COVID deaths in children down to 1,341 nationwide. Children were about 19 percent of all COVID cases but only about a quarter of a percent of those cases were fatal,” Elordi explained, pointing to data from the American Academy of Pediatrics. 
Massachusetts lowered its death count by 3,700 while New York ended up increasing its share of COVID-19 nursing home deaths. In fact, an investigation from New York’s attorney general found that deaths in that state’s nursing homes may have been undercounted by as much as 50%.
Last week, CDC director Rochelle Walensky sent out a letter that referenced the agency’s Data Modernization Initiative, which is supposed to make the data it puts out more reliable and accurate. 
The question of how to differentiate between many deaths were from COVID-19, and how many deaths were with COVID-19, still remains. 
“The current standards still don’t clearly differentiate between patients who died with COVID verse died from COVID, or the degree to which COVID contributed to any given death. It’s possible we will see another downward revision as that reporting gets more granular,” Elordi explained. 
This is not the first time that the CDC has faced criticism for its handling of the pandemic, and Special Counsel Henry J. Kerner in December <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-exposed-cdc-covid-19-vulnerabilities-special-counsel-says">substantiated</a> a whistleblower’s claims about the CDC’s mishandling in both New York City and Atlanta in February and March 2020, were “reasonable.” 
For example, the whistleblower alleged that public health workers were not properly trained when they assisted with the COVID-19 response at New York City&#8217;s JFK Airport in the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak. 
Wednesday’s episode of “Morning Wire,” and all episodes of “Morning Wire,” can be listened to <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/sc/podcast/morning-wire/id1576594336">here</a>.

Center For Disease Control Director Tom Frieden Addresses The Media On Ebola Case In U.S.

CDC Overreported COVID-19 Deaths By More Than 70,000

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In October, The Daily Wire shook the Virginia gubernatorial election when investigative reporter Luke Rosiak broke the story that the Loudoun County school board had lied about a rape in a girls’ bathroom by a boy wearing a skirt. How was Rosiak positioned to get the scoop? Because, it turns out, he had quietly been working on a two-year-long investigation of America’s schools.
The product of that investigation, a book called &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Race-Bottom-Uncovering-Destroying-Education/dp/0063056720/?tag=governmacco01-20">Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education</a>,&#8221; released Tuesday, and stands to expose districts across the country the way that Loudoun was exposed.
“Loudoun is just a case study,” Rosiak said. “The point is the same dynamics you see there are present in most school districts.” 
While the book illuminates those dynamics, and also calls out 61 districts and 11 states by name, its reach actually encompasses almost all school districts. 
The book finds that a small group of radical racial consultants have been hired prolifically by districts &#8212; even in conservative areas &#8212; and spread their ideas. One consultant alone, Glenn Singleton of Pacific Education Group &#8212; whose presence can often be detected by the telltale phrase “courageous conversations” &#8212; has been hired by at least 500 of the nation’s 13,000 districts. 
The book also details how national activist groups reach their tentacles into most public school districts and even private schools, by producing politicized lesson plans that teachers use rather than produce their own lessons. 
The Zinn Education Project, for example, named after socialist historian Howard Zinn, creates lesson plans used by the content company Newsela, which is used by 90% of U.S. schools. Learning For Justice, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, sends its magazine to more than 400,000 teachers across the U.S. 
Rosiak said one of the most remarkable aspects of indoctrination in schools is how merely living in a conservative area does not mean schools are safe from it. The Topeka, Kansas, schools, for example, were promoting Singleton’s ideas as early as 2014. Many of the ideas began in Minneapolis and Seattle but are now routinely pushed by states like Missouri and Indiana, where the state Department of Education has incorporated Learning For Justice’s “Social Justice Standards.”
The spread of these ideas has come even as they have failed to improve anything in Minneapolis and Seattle, which have seen more racial tension and achievement gaps, not less, as they have provided massive “equity” programming. Seattle’s “ethnic studies” czar moved her eight-year-old child in with a convicted child molester, the book reveals, and includes an interview with the activist’s father, who compares his daughter to Rachel Dolezal for her claimed “Xicana” identity.
“Information is power,” Rosiak said. “If you want to save your kids, you have to know who they’re up against, and most of them aren’t household names. That’s how they took over to begin with &#8212; anonymous operators working for decades while no one was watching.”

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Daily Wire Reporter Who Broke Loudoun Rape Story Examines 61 School Districts Nationwide

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