America's Report Card – The Woke Left Catastrophically Fails Students | The Close Read Podcast

American schools are failing society. Illiteracy is rampant while progressive ideology overrides traditional curricula. Social studies, history, and civics are all captured by people and organizations devoted to anti-American revisionism. Mark Bauerlein, First Things contributing editor and Emeritus Professor of English at Emory University, outlines the dangers of teaching students to hate their country before they understand it in his latest CRB piece, “Saving Civics.” Can Americans recover a shared canon and a moral core?

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Chapters
00:00 Introductions
02:00 Deconstructing the "Both Sides" Argument in Education
10:43 Liberal Radicalism in Higher Education
20:48 Schools in the Post-Woke Era
26:14 Can the Western Canon Be Reclaimed?
29:40 Closing Remarks

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