Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Education eliminated two major teacher-training programs: the $70 million-a-year Teacher Quality Partnerships program and the $80 million-a-year Supporting Effective Educator Development grants. This is terrific news, not just for the budgetary savings but because it strikes an emphatic blow at training that has promoted dubious dogmas and politicized classrooms.
The move was met with predictable outrage in the nation’s schools of education and the ranks of left-leaning education associations. But it was a welcome and overdue correction, one that deserves to be celebrated.
The Department of Education noted that many of the teacher preparation and training programs featured social justice activism, a hyper-fixation on race, and recruiting strategies “implicitly and explicitly based on race.” Grant proposals included programs…
