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David Bernstein retweeted
I joined the APA as a postdoc, and resigned a few years ago. This article explains why: The Inmates Run the Asylum at the Psychological Association by @SwipeWright and @Hartz_PhD wsj.com/opinion/the-inmates-… via @WSJopinion
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“We started to decline the moment we stopped hating, eradicating and expelling jews,” reads one message. “Exterminate the jewish state,” reads another. These posts might sound like the words of an internet troll. But according to the FBI, they were actually the work of a professor of religion at Haverford College. With @vimalnyt: nytimes.com/2026/10/07/us/ha…
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"Never forget" means teaching our kids what happened on 9/11.
We owe it to the survivors, those we lost, the heroes in and out of uniform, and their families to keep that day's memory alive and pass their stories on for all future generations.
That's why we introduced bipartisan legislation requiring all 50 states to ensure the September 11 attacks are taught in K-12 curricula.
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Is Biology Allowed to Explain Anything? Even a sex difference as obvious as throwing strength? Robert Deaner & Mike Lombardo: "The strong Blank Slate—the idea that human psychology is largely written by culture—has been declared dead many times. Yet it refuses to stay dead. ... Today, biology is usually acknowledged. Nature and nurture interact. Fine. But the Blank Slate survives through two recurring moves. First, reasonable observations—that traits are plastic, parents influence children, experience matters, and development mediates behavior—are treated as though they rule out an innate contribution. They do not. Second, evidence that could challenge a socialization-only explanation is ignored, minimized, or sidestepped."
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Thanks to Daniel Diermeier, @VanderbiltU is the new University of Chicago.
As president of Vanderbilt University, Daniel Diermeier has become a powerful voice of reform in higher education. This week he and the chairman of Vanderbilt's board published this highly commendable statement of first principles. Although the document's plea for institutional neutrality won't align with the mission of religiously affiliated schools, it is appropriate and indeed highly desirable for public universities and non-religiously affiliated private institutions like Vanderbilt and Princeton.
vanderbilt.edu/declaration/
David Bernstein retweeted
I documented the sharp leftward shift in academia several years ago, along with its accompanying decline in research standards. The Vanderbilt report is welcome, but it's also simply confirmation of what was already obvious (although adamantly denied by many faculty on the left)
David Bernstein retweeted
Yesterday, NEA partners held a post-May Day webinar.
Their message: public schools should help build “a different country,” “a different people,” and an education system rooted in social movements against "the 1%."
Watch NCAE’s VP and Jesse Hagopian lay out the vision.
David Bernstein retweeted
Public School Strong counts the National Education Association among its national partners. During a June 4 webinar co-hosted by Rethinking Schools, union activists spoke openly about using public schools as vehicles for political transformation — and about using the message that children deserve strong schools to build public support for a much broader political agenda.
“A Different Country, A Different People”: Teacher Union Activists Map May Day Strategy
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🚨 SHOCKING EXPOSURE: Is your tax money funding political indoctrination?
NAVI’s Chief Strategy Officer @weinotjosh joins @natefriedman97 to expose how Chicago Public Schools are bussing children to partisan protests and sneaking "fugitive pedagogy" into the classroom. 🚌🚩
Key revelations from the investigation:
• Taxpayer-Funded Busses: Likely over 1,000 students from 35+ schools were bussed to a partisan rally during school hours [01:36].
• Classroom Indoctrination: Teachers are being trained to sneak "anti-American" and "gender theory" curriculum past administrators, even for preschoolers [04:10].
• Political Coercion: Students as young as 9th grade report teachers using profanity against political figures in class [10:43].
• Proficiency Crisis: While focus shifts to activism, over 50 Chicago schools have a 0% math proficiency rate [08:04].
NAVI is fighting to keep politics out of the classroom and return to American civic values. 🇺🇸
Watch the full investigation here: youtu.be/ep4kNYWwy8U?si=8ApA…
#EducationFirst #NaviValues #NateFriedmanShow #ChicagoPublicSchools #SchoolChoice
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Students bused to a partisan protest, paid by taxpayers, pushed by a teachers union, along with extreme groups. NAVI’s Josh Weiner (@weinotjosh) joined @FoxNews last night to share what he saw on the ground in Chicago.
David Bernstein retweeted
We should oppose the Trump administration's abuse of the law to intimidate and cripple private advocacy organizations they don't like. But what they say about the Southern Poverty Law Center (which I used to donate to) is, unfortunately, correct: It “long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine.” Among the targets in its McCarthyite "Hate Watch" list are ordinary academic behavioral geneticists whose research challenges the blank slate. nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/so…
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Most parents have no idea what's being taught in their child's classroom right now.
It's not education. It's a framework that sorts every person — including your child — into oppressors and victims based on characteristics they can't control.
And when it comes to the Jews, it becomes something far more sinister. History is clear: what starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews.
NAVI has mapped the full picture — and the strategy to stop it. 🔗 Download our white paper, "When Classrooms Turn Hostile" at NAVIvalues.org/hostileclassr…
Every child deserves an education — not indoctrination.
#NorthAmericanValuesInstitute #Education #AmericanEducation #Antisemitism #CivicValues #America250
David Bernstein retweeted
The NEA’s Political Organizing Through Proxy Groups
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NAVI’s Chief Strategy Officer @weinotjosh talks the “Hostile Classroom” report and why an operating worldview, and those in power who hold it and disperse it throughout K-12, is what needs to be addressed before we can even hope to bring phonics back into America’s classrooms and combat anti-Americanism and antisemitism. - download the paper at navivalues.org/hostileclassr…
The rot of antisemitism has invaded K-12 schools. Jewish students are harassed. Anti-Israel walkouts are promoted.
To combat it all - the folks at @NAVIvalues released a new strategic framework. Josh Weiner, Chief of Strategy, joined us to discuss it -->
David Bernstein retweeted
My friend who is a public figure sent me this today. This is what they have been doing for years. Sliding into DMs to pressurise people of note to unfollow us while smearing us. It’s sick. This is the left. They have broken their own movements.
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"Mr. Mamdani, you are more than welcome to come to one of my safe houses."
Masih Alinejad, who was targeted for assassination by the Iranian regime at her Brooklyn home, responded to a statement released by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani that today's military strikes on Iran "mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression.” Listen to her here:
David Bernstein retweeted
The Party for Socialism and Liberation is encouraging students in webinars to risk suspension and arrest to walkout in opposition to ICE, and telling them their parents support t@rr@ri$t$ m**rdering people. See the reel below and full story at navik12tracker.substack.com/… - and see our strategic response to this extremism at navivalues.org/hostileclassr…