The increasing politicization of education curriculum - American Experiment

The increasing politicization of education curriculum - American Experiment
"Founder and former CEO Steven Wilson of Ascend Learning, a charter school network in Brooklyn, New York, discusses the emergence of anti-intellectualism in k-12 education on Choice Media’s The Learning Curve podcast co-hosted by Bob Bowdon. It is a thought-provoking segment, which you can listen to here (it begins around the 23:30 mark).
Wilson sees the politicization and radicalization of curriculum as a threat to our ability to pursue objective truth and as a way to suppress ideas.
...Below are excerpts from the podcast.
"...One document widely used in diversity workshops, including in the training of all New York City administrators and principals, identifies 13 “damaging characteristics of white supremacy culture.”

• One is “objectivity,” which is manifested as “the belief that there is such a thing as being objective” and “requiring people to think in a linear way.” 
• Anti-intellectualism often takes the position that there are only subjective perspectives. 
• Another is the “worship of the written word,” whereby “those with strong documentation and writing skills are more highly valued.” … 

But how tragic it would be if any child was taught that a reverence for the written word was a white characteristic. 
What would they make of Frederic Douglass’s Fourth of July speech, Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, or James Baldwin’s letter to his nephew, “My Dungeon Shook” in The Fire Next Time?”...
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