Indoctrination Nation

Jonathan Chait: “Convinced schools are brainwashing kids to be left-wingers, conservatives are seizing control of the American classroom…”

“Over the past three years, legislators in 28 states have passed at least 71 bills controlling what teachers and students can say and do at school. A wave of library purges, subject-matter restrictions, and potential legal threats against educators has followed.”

“Education has become an obsession on the political right, which now sees it as the central battlefield upon which this country’s future will be settled.”