Today Columbia, next year the Empire State?

While the Minuteman Debacle and restricted forum on Islamist terror continue to dog the university, an even larger controversy in brewing.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has brought up a disturbing change at Columbia's Teachers College. Long the ideological home of "progressive" education in America , Columbia University Teacher College has now openly made ideology the core of pedagogy.

The Conceptual Framework upon which pedagogy is based at Columbia is shockingly clear in that the role of teachers is to reshape society. The Conceptual Framework "Performance Expectations for Candidates" defines six areas of performance for students and graduates:

Inquiring into and reflecting on learning and teaching;


Taking responsibility for one's and others' learning;


Meeting the needs of diverse learners;


Responding to the realities of school and communities;


Collaborating with others and participating in the community;


Advocating for social justice. (Emphasis added)

Leftist activism is thus part of the curriculum and part of what is needed to gain admittance there.

As an institution, Columbia has a serious problem with free speech, and academic feedom. I guess things have not changed all that much since Alexander Hamilton was expelled from Kings College, other than the ruling philosophy.

Unfortunately, we have leftist revolutionaries now running universities, seeking to redefine American society through education:

"The educators and scholars that have shaped Teachers College's
philosophy believed that education could enlighten democracy, challenge and transform social inequities, and help to build a more humane and just society. We see teaching as an ethical and political act. We see teachers as moral actors whose job is to facilitate the growth and development of other human beings, and as such, as participants in a larger struggle for social justice. We build our educational space on principles of access, equity and diversity: ... Education has the power to transform human lives and to shape and guide social order.
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Should the Democrats take Albany, or worse, Congress, this will be the official ideology of American education.