How Public Schools Went Woke — and What to Do about It

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ast year, one of us wrote about how universities have fostered our politicized classrooms. Since then, it seems as if public education has devolved into woke-ism. The media denied critical race theory’s existence in American education for months, only to now admit that it does in fact influence policy and curricula. In response, countless legislatures have introduced “CRT bans” and school-choice bills as a means to combat the apparently rapid progressive capture of American schools.

These laws, alongside school-choice bills, are necessary but insufficient efforts. If one tap is contaminated, perhaps it’s a local phenomenon. However, with ever more examples of …