A letter from the Trump administration warns educational institutions that they’ll lose federal funding if they don’t abandon so-called DEI programs. That could change education in the US.
Of all the professors and teachers purged or investigated during the Red Scare, not one was ever accused of incompetence in the classroom, nor was any credible evidence presented that they propagandized their students. The majority of the purged were highly honored instructors, and invariably it was acknowledged that they left their politics at the campus gates. The sad fact is that American educators have always been targeted by suspicion during a national fit of patriotism—not for their classroom conduct, but for their beliefs and associations.
