Harvard Grad Students Create ‘Power Rainbow’ to Teach 3rd Graders About Systemic Oppression
“a more accurate, structural analysis informed by how power operates at different levels of society”
This is indoctrination. There is no other reason to involve young kids in this.
The College Fix reports:
‘Power Rainbow’ by Harvard grad students teaches 3rd graders about systemic oppression
Two Harvard University graduate students developed a “Power Rainbow” tool to teach elementary schoolers about systemic oppression, including one who was the recipient of a publicly-funded scholarship that recently came under Congressional scrutiny.
Anna Deloia, who has since graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Hania Mariën, a doctorate student, published the “Power Rainbow” in 2023 to help third- to fifth-grade children “make sense of power and how it shapes our lives and societies,” according to the school’s website.
The curriculum tool is designed to shift children’s thinking away “from an individual or interpersonal perspective on injustice.” Instead, it teaches them “a more accurate, structural analysis informed by how power operates at different levels of society (e.g., individual unfair actions are influenced by institutions, laws, and cultural norms),” the webpage states.
Deloia was a 2017 recipient of the Truman Scholarship, the subject of a recent Congressional hearing. A series of analyses by The College Fix found that the scholarship is overwhelmingly granted to left-leaning students, and, in some years, no recipients were openly on the right politically.
Overseen by U.S. Congress and funded by taxpayers, the $30,000 scholarship is awarded to around 50 students annually. Awardees promise to spend three of their first seven years after finishing graduate school in public service.
Adam Kissel, a visiting fellow in the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Higher Education Policy, told The College Fix in an email last week that Deloia “appears to be the kind of progressive ‘change agent’ the Truman Foundation privileges in its materials.”
“If the Foundation refuses to remove such biases from the program, Congress should find a better way to honor President Truman’s legacy,” he said.
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I would like to see a carefully structured research project to determine whether graduate schools of education make anyone a better teacher. I believe they would find that their results showed no significant improvement.
They don’t, of course, The graduate degrees simply open doors to administration jobs, in which teaching skills (if any) are barely used anyway.
First thing to do is test all these kids for reading skills, using 1960 passing criteria, When (not if) they flunk, scrap this Power Rainbow crap and put them back on Reading Rainbow where they belong.
Henry, even back in my day of classrooms lit with incandescent lamps and 16mm projectors, teaching methods were… less than stellar. For example, I have learned more about doing complex math by doing OlyVerse and and MathJoy problems at YouTube in the past three months than I got in school. Besides, OlyVerse is so intense about his subject he is amusing as well.
As for reading, our “readers” were dreadful. But, one semester the new “readers” had not arrived at the school in time. I think this was the 2nd or third grade, our teacher had three of us huskier boys follow her to a storage room. There was a stack of tattered old 1930s-vintage readers. We carried stacks of them back to class.
Pen-and-ink drawings. Paragraphs more than two or three sentences in length. Words of three – and often more – syllables. WE KIDS LOVED THOSE BOOKS! Interesting stories about everything from muskrats to farm silos. Even slow readers like me appreciated them.
The new books arrived from “downtown” but we set them aside unopened. Not one child was bored and even our really “slow” kid, Mike, started to catch on.
I just used poor sentence structure; I left out a comma.
The first line should read, “Henry, even back in my day of classrooms lit with incandescent lamps, and 16mm projectors,
Dumbing down another generation of perceived victims is the goal.
I’m very grateful to have homeschooled our children.