There’s really no difference between PragerU and typical US neoliberal education. That’s the problem… not the fact that the state is contracting a private company to design curriculum. That’s already a thing, too.
Standardized testing and textbook companies have driven most education policy decisions and available curriculum since the late-90s. Common Core provides an illusion of choice, but students must learn procedures and follow them to earn points on assignments. Grammar correction is already used to discriminate and segregate. So what exactly are people afraid of or angry about?
What makes PragerU different from McGraw-Hill referring to Africans enslaved under chattel slavery, “millions of workers from Africa [brought] to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.”* What makes the PragerU lesson on Columbus worse than the lessons still taught in most US classrooms?
Why haven’t y’all criticized curriculum specifics before and does your current outrage mean you will support dismantling all propagandized educational policies or contracts?
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Originally published on Facebook: 18 August 2025