America’s education schools — that is, college programs that train future K–12 teachers — play a starring role in the decline of education in this country. They were long ago captured by the radical left, which uses them to indoctrinate future teachers in bad educational theory and radical politics.

Can we do anything about this?

In today’s Martin Center article, Daniel Buck says that we can and must.

He writes:

The left happily leverages public policy to force their worldview into schools of education. Illinois’s Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards, for example, instruct teachers to provide their students with opportunities for “student advocacy,” to use activities with the aim of “raising consciousness,” and to always center their “social justice work.”

No wonder that so many students can hector you all day about America’s racism, but can’t do simple math or write a decent paragraph.

One way of dealing with the ed school problem is to create new ones that won’t turn teachers into left-wing zealots. Buck writes:

A more popular approach, and one that policymakers are likely to pursue, is the creation of new institutions. Several already exist. Most notably, Hillsdale College and the University of Dallas both provide master’s degrees in classical education, and their graduates staff the rapidly growing classical-education movement. But because these are small programs at private, Christian institutions, their impact is inherently limited.

Read the whole thing.