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Last Wednesday, a committee of the Utah state senate voted down a bill, S.B. 226, that would have restored classic liberal education.

The real problem with higher education is that trustees and legislators have ceded their control over the general-education curriculum to a faculty driven by political motives.

The General Education Act (GEA)’s method is not to forbid the teaching of certain ideas, it is, rather, to mandate mastery of essential knowledge.

Not a single episode of history can be taught outside the dictates of the anchor standards, i.e., without leftist advocacy.

Kurtz reflects on the impressive job DeSantis has done in the realm of higher education.

“[G]eneral-education requirements at public universities are supposed to be shaped by the public’s fundamental values, as voiced by their chosen representatives.”

If we are going to save the culture, it will take serious pushback against the powers that be.

Republican elected leaders need to wake up and stop being fooled by superficially appealing proposals like community schools and “civics.”

The Times’ campaign against yeshivas is about much more than teaching Math and English. It is a template for attacking all dissenters.

For too long, we’ve granted a blinkered ideological minority a power over our public universities that is not rightly theirs.

The wording of the current version of the Civics Secures Democracy Act has been tweaked a bit, yet the substance remains the same.

Action civics has become the hands-on do-it-yourself version of CRT.