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Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University is a book-length study published in 2016 and written by Jon A. Shields and Joshua M. Dunn Sr. The study explored the question of the existence of a liberal or anti-conservative academic bias in the United States via interviews with 153 professors from 84 universities who identify as conservative.
Politics and lobbying play a significant part in the history of U.S. for-profit school growth. [28] [29] The for-profit education industry has spent more than $40 million on lobbying from 2007 to 2012. [30] and $36 million since 2010. [31] For-profit education lobbying grew from $83,000 in 1990 to approximately $4.5 million in its peak year of ...
JP Eggers, the interim dean of New York University’s Stern School of Business, was one of 20 faculty who signed the anti-Donald Trump letter ahead of the 2020 US election
PragerU, known for making conservative web videos, has gotten a line of cartoon videos and education materials, called PragerU Kids, into public schools in four states.
More than 100,000 teachers joined walkout on Wednesday in a dispute over pay
[3]: xvii They also included a few questions about political party affiliations and recent voting patterns, and reported that there were more Democrats than Republicans, 47% to 16%. [5] According to sociologist Neil Gross, the study was significant because it was the first effort to poll university faculty specifically about their political views.
Other times teachers have to give up planning periods," said Darrell Turner, a pre-school teacher. The pandemic is the main reason Tara Roberts has left her job in special education.
Since 2020, efforts have been made by conservatives and others to challenge critical race theory (CRT) being taught in schools in the United States.Following the 2020 protests of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, as well as the killing of Breonna Taylor, school districts began to introduce additional curricula and create diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-positions to address ...