No Public Consensus on How Schools Should Discuss Sexuality and Racism AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Half of Americans say parents and teachers have too little influence on classroom curriculum.
The silent majority against Republicans’ moral panic on schools Paul Waldman, Washington Post To hear Republicans tell it, fed-up citizens are standing up to leftist teachers and school administrators who have been infecting little ones’ minds with unpatriotic historical revisionism and outré social theories. But what if most Americans don’t actually believe that? A new poll from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research suggests a genuine silent majority of people who think what’s happening in schools is just fine — and many of them believe there should be more discussion of race and sexuality. Americans Agree Democracy Is Doomed, but Not About Why New Republic Our exclusive survey reveals that a maj…