Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 26, 2023

[thread] PragerU

Florida Will Allow Far Right PragerU Materials in Public Schools
https://truthout.org/articles/florida-will-allow-far-right-prageru-materials-in-public-schools-company-says/

* founded 2009 by right-wing radio host Dennis Prager
* pushes anti-immigrant theories
* downplays role of racism in U.S. history/modern society
* embraces Christian nationalism
* disputes climate change
* denies inequalities based on gender, race, sexuality
* promotes capitalist/imperialist ideology

https://persagen.com >> PragerU

#Florida #PragerU #disinformation #ChristianRight

Florida Will Allow Far Right PragerU Materials in Public Schools, Company Says

This is Christian nationalist indoctrination," one critic of the move said.

Truthout
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 1, 2023

Addendae 1

Florida School Curriculum Designed to Make Kids Conservative
https://newrepublic.com/post/174762/floridas-new-school-curriculum-designed-make-kids-conservative

* Dept Education approved PragerU educational materials
* right-wing group explicitly stated it wants to indoctrinate children
* PragerU not an accredited academic institution
* conservative advocacy group disguised as scholars
* disinformation: climate change | slavery as pretext for Civil War | acknowledgment of racism (esp. of Black Americans) in US history

#Florida #PragerU #neoconservatism

Florida’s New School Curriculum Is Designed to Make Kids Conservative

The right-wing group behind the newly approved school materials is proud of its agenda.

The New Republic
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 23, 2023

Addendae 2

Making sense of Florida’s nonsensical history curriculum
‘Slavery wasn’t so bad; white men the real victims’
https://www.nationofchange.org/2023/08/22/making-sense-of-floridas-nonsensical-history-curriculum/

* messages f. the right-wing war on history
* rooted in politics of fear

#Florida #PragerU #neoconservatism #PoliticsOfFear #DeSantis #CultureWars #BLM #BlackHistory #BlackTransLivesMatter #CRT #CriticalRaceTheory #CriticalTheory #HistoricalRevisionism #racism #WarOnWoke #FarRight #ChristianRight #DefundBillionaires #GOP #FloridaEducation #whitewash

Making sense of Florida’s nonsensical history curriculum | NationofChange

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 15, 2023

Addendae 3

Joe Lonsdale/Cicero Institute
PragerU

Chris Rufo's message spread thru right-wing channels
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110945862769594954

* Cicero Institute, founded by Palantir's Joe Lonsdale
* Manhattan Institute's Heather MacDonald on homelessness, Cicero Institute
* PragerU: 23' in video

https://persagen.com >> search:
"chris rufo"
prageru
"manhattan institute"
"joe lonsdale" OF "cicero institute"
"cicero institute" and "homelessness" AND legislation

#PragerU #ChrisRufo #ManhattanInstitute

Persagen.com

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 15, 2023

Addendum 4

Bogus “Edutainment” May be Coming to a Classroom Near You
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/15/bogus-edutainment-may-be-coming-to-a-classroom-near-you

“Edutainment”? 🤨

* it’s what PragerU, a business/media shop (NOT a university) run by right-wing talk-show host Dennis Prager calls its videos & curriculum materials for school-age kids 🤦‍♀️
* Florida & Oklahoma public school peddle PragerU materials
* Texas could be next

#PragerU #education #edutainment #neoconservatism #DeSantis #Florida #Oklahoma #Texas #disinformation

Bogus “Edutainment” May be Coming to a Classroom Near You

If you’re a parent or student in America this fall, watch out: “edutainment” could be coming to your school. What’s “edutainment”? It’s what PragerU, a

CounterPunch.org
Show threadApti2d
@persagen Definitely not in the league of Montessori or Khan Academy. Then again; less and less US public schools teach #SpecializedLearning at all.
Sep 16, 2023 at 12:02amWeb