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#RedforEd Founder Promoting 'Teacher Agency' in Politics to Academia

posted onJanuary 13, 2020
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Article snippet: The founder of the #RedforEd movement is now promoting “next-generation” political teacher activism to academics in graduate schools of education around the country in order to further advance a socialist agenda in the United States. Noah Karvelis — who launched the #RedforEd movement in Arizona when he was 23 years old in March of 2018 — is now a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In November, the BerkeleyReviewofEducation, “a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal that engages issues of educational diversity and equity from various cognitive, developmental, sociohistorical, linguistic, and cultural perspectives … edited by students from the Graduate School of Education at the University of California,” that is part of the American Educational Research Association, a 25,000 member professional organization of college faculty, administration, and researchers, published his left-wing political call to action for all teachers, titled “Towards a Theory of Teacher Agency: Conceptualizing the Political Positions and Possibilities of Teacher Movements.” As Breitbart News reported in February: The #RedforEd movement scored a number of political successes around the country in 2019. In January 2020, Education Minnesota, the 80,000-member public schools teachers union there, became the first teachers union in the state to drop the pretense that the goals of local #RedforEd groups were somehow separate from the organized teachers unions and that t... Link to the full article to read more

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