California Adopting Communist Teaching Methods

Commentary I’m not abusing the use of the word “communist” here. California is indeed adopting teaching methods imposed in the 1920s in the Soviet Union, the world’s first communist regime, emphasizing conformity above all else. EdSource headlined, “New California teaching standards increase focus on family engagement, social-emotional learning.” It reported, “California’s Commission on Teacher Credentialing approved long-awaited revised Standards for the Teaching Profession on Thursday that emphasize culturally responsive teaching, social-emotional learning and family engagement.” Notice there’s no reversal of the recent dumbing-down of curricula, which I have reported in The Epoch Times in such articles as, “How Scholars, Parents Are Fighting the ‘Communist Education Deep State.’”...