Listen "Wokeness in Public Schools: Helping or Hurting Students?"
Episode Synopsis
Public schools have in recent years begun incorporating topics around race, sex, and gender into K-12 classrooms. Are public schools moving in the right direction to address students’ needs? Those who say students benefit argue that learning them helps create socially aware, empathetic, and responsible citizens. Those who argue they harm students say children may be learning what should be left to parents to discuss. Now we debate: Wokeness in Public Schools: Helping or Hurting Students?
Arguing Hurting: Ian Rowe, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; Founder of Vertex Partnership Academies
Arguing Helping: Altheria Caldera, Senior Professorial Lecturer in the School of Education at American University
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Arguing Hurting: Ian Rowe, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; Founder of Vertex Partnership Academies
Arguing Helping: Altheria Caldera, Senior Professorial Lecturer in the School of Education at American University
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