Jay P. Greene is a senior research fellow in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. At Heritage, Jay conducts and disseminates research on the key issues facing education today, including the cultural, civic, and economic implications of how education systems are designed and implemented. He is one of the country’s leading experts on education policy, with highly influential research on a broad range of topics.
Jay joins Conduit to discuss how to curb wokeism in education and empower parents.
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SUMMARY
Conservative school choice skeptics are right to raise alarm over the prospective regulatory capture of expanded school choice programs. However, they are mistaken in fearing that giving parents the ability to choose their children’s schools will not reduce wokeism. If regulations can be held in check, as many states have managed to do with their charter sectors, schools tend to be less woke. Conservatives would do well to be vigilant against regulatory capture rather than resigning themselves to defeat. Parental empowerment represents a viable path to fighting back against woke indoctrination in K–12 schools. Controlling wokeism can be achieved by ensuring that schools are more accountable to parents than to regulators.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Charter schools and private schools sometimes push woke ideas like public schools do, raising concern about whether expanding school choice will reduce wokeism.
- Measuring how woke charter schools are across states shows that when schools are more accountable to parents than to regulators, the less woke those schools are.
- Empowering parents with expanded school choice while remaining vigilant against regulation will significantly reduce woke indoctrination in education.
