Nearly all American children encounter pseudoscientific concepts drawn from critical race and gender theory in school. These are the findings of our new Manhattan Institute report, The Impact of Critical Social Justice Ideology in American Schools, based on a national representative survey of 18 to 20 year-olds. And while school choice can help a small number of committed parents shield their children from these toxic ideas, the only way to protect the nation's children and prevent large-scale left-wing indoctrination is by reforming public schools.
In previous generations, an ebb and flow of radical ideas was par for the course of growing up. Americans would get liberal in college, and measurably less so as they got married and became homeowners. But that trend does not seem to be holding for millennials. And our research goes a long way toward explaining why.
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Eric Kaufmann is professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London and an adjunct fellow of the Manhattan Institute. Based on a recent MI report.
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