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https://goudsmit.pundicity.com/28625/the-sesame-street-seduction

No stranger has ever seduced a child with spinach. Predators understand that seducing a child requires offering something the child wants or providing something that engages the child. So it is with educational seduction.

Preschool educational television program Sesame Street, originally created to help young children from low-income families prepare for school and stimulate their desire to learn, first aired in November 1969. The show was spectacularly successful with children from all socio-economic backgrounds across America, who watched their beloved Muppet characters, and learned letters, numbers, geometric forms, classification, ordering, problem-solving, and social interactions. Sesame Street revolutionized children’s programming and proved that children could learn through visual media. Edutainment, a new genre in television programming was born.

After decades of success teaching foundational skills in reading and mathematics, and helping children learn through music, iconic characters, and repetition, Sesame Street at 55 years old is no longer recognizable––Sesame Street has gone woke. The astonishing educational success of Sesame Street made it a prime-time target for those who understood how easily the programming could be repurposed and used for anti-American, anti-family woke indoctrination. Education is a dual-use industry, and the fall of Sesame Street represents the capture of the American education industry at the pre-school level. Sesame Street is now a favored edutainment weapon of the globalist War on America that targets our nation’s youngest children.

Globalist Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) articulated the power of educational indoctrination. “Chapter 15, Obama’s Grand Plan: Fundamental Transformation” from my 2022 release The Collapsing American Family: From Bonding to Bondage, further explains how educational indoctrination is the long-range tactical strategy for globalism’s strategic goal to rule the world:

The value of educational propaganda in the globalist campaign is described in chilling detail by English aristocrat Lord Bertrand Russell in his 1953 classic, The Impact of Science on Society.81 Educational indoctrination is the primary instrument for eliminating objective reality, dismissing the American family, subverting American culture, and destroying America from within. Russell unapologetically explained the process that drives a society to madness:

It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.

Education should aim at destroying free will so that pupils thus schooled, will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished. . . . Influences of the home are obstructive; not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten; in order to condition students, verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. . . . It is for a future scientist to make these maxims precise and to discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen. (pp. 27–28, Routledge Classics, 2016 edition)

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/columbia-university-failed-to-meet-accreditation-standards-department-of-education-finds/

Columbia University failed to meet accreditation standards due to its inability to uphold civil rights law and punish harassment against Jewish students, the Department of Education announced Wednesday.

Office of Civil Rights (OCR) officials have notified the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, the body that sets Columbia’s accreditation standards, that the university is “in violation of federal antidiscrimination laws and therefore fails to meet standards.” Administrators’ unwillingness to address months of anti-Israel activism on Columbia’s campus created an unsafe environment for Jewish students, the department added, putting the university in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The news comes weeks after the Trump administration found that Columbia “failed to meaningfully protect Jewish students against severe and pervasive harassment on Columbia’s campus and consequently denied these students’ equal access to educational opportunities to which they are entitled under the law.”

“After Hamas’ October 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel, Columbia University’s leadership acted with deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students on its campus. This is not only immoral, but also unlawful,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said. “Accreditors have an enormous public responsibility as gatekeepers of federal student aid. They determine which institutions are eligible for federal student loans and Pell Grants. Just as the Department of Education has an obligation to uphold federal antidiscrimination law, university accreditors have an obligation to ensure member institutions abide by their standards.”

Columbia must either comply with federal law or risk losing accreditation status.

OCR began its investigation into Columbia in February. The Trump administration has given Columbia lists of demands and recommendations on how to combat the campus’s rampant antisemitism problem, some of which Columbia has resisted. The administration has cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to Columbia as a result.

Anti-Israel protests began on Columbia’s campus directly after Hamas’s October 7 attack. The campus labeled the situation a “crisis,” even switching to remote classes for a time, after students began solidarity encampments that turned disruptive and violent. Jewish students were told by religious leaders to leave school over security concerns.

Though eventually broken up by law enforcement, student encampments kept popping back up. Students illegally occupied campus buildings and were charged on multiple counts including burglary, trespass, and criminal mischief.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reviewing the visa status of some anti-Israel protesters involved in the demonstrations.

https://amgreatness.com/2025/06/04/equity-quackery/

While numerous changes are needed to improve our faltering education system, eliminating the concept of “equity” should perhaps be at the top of the list.

Grading for Equity, written by Joe Feldman, a former teacher, administrator, and “educational grading consultant,” made its arrival on the scene in 2018 and, sadly, is still used by many schools.

In the Grading for Equity regimen, teachers don’t consider homework, extra credit, or “soft-skill” behaviors, such as punctuality, attendance, timely submission of assignments, and class participation. Students are given additional time to complete tests and can retake them repeatedly to demonstrate mastery or raise their grade. Also, teacher quality is not essential. All that matters is that certain ethnicities are equally represented in various areas, making the group the focus instead of the individual.

The examples are myriad. In Buffalo, the state spent $500,000 on the Teacher Diversity Pipeline Pilot. The goal of this program is to help teacher aides become certified teachers. Eligibility, however, is based on whether the employee increases the diversity of the teaching staff, rather than on their ability to teach or their classroom experience.

In California, Palo Alto schools are eliminating honors classes. Beginning in September, first-year students will no longer have the option of taking a rigorous honors biology class. Proponents insist that removing different “lanes” for students or “de-laning,” based on achievement, will promote equity and encourage all kids to pursue science throughout their high school career.

In Illinois, state data show that only 41% of students in third through eighth grade could read at grade level in 2024, and just 31% in 11th grade. In math, 28% of third through eighth graders were proficient, and only 26% of 11th graders were.

What does State Superintendent of Education Tony Sanders plan to do about the poor scores?

He wants to lower proficiency benchmarks on state assessments, claiming his plan will “right-size our benchmarks for proficiency on state assessments to provide us with more accurate data about student performance.”

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/04/harvard-has-brought-this-reckoning-on-itself/

In its war on Harvard, the Trump administration has dropped some serious bombs on America’s most prestigious university. It is investigating Harvard for violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act by tolerating racial discrimination and anti-Semitism. It has frozen more than $3 billion in federal funding and cancelled the government’s remaining contracts with Harvard. Trump himself has threatened to revoke the university’s tax-exempt status. A Republican budget bill, meanwhile, would impose higher taxes on Harvard and other universities’ endowments. Most recently, the administration has sought to stop Harvard from enrolling foreign students for allegedly failing to comply with requests for information about ‘pro-terrorism conduct’ on campus (a court has temporarily halted that attempt).

These aggressive moves follow Harvard’s decision to sue the administration for threatening its funding, unless it complied with demands outlined in a letter sent in April. These demands include allowing the government to review hiring and admissions decisions, audit faculty, students and staff for viewpoint diversity, ban students ‘hostile to American values’, and provide regular updates to the administration, among other stipulations.

While Harvard has an immense $53 billion endowment, the Trump funding cuts, if enacted, could still be financially devastating. Barring foreign students would be particularly damaging, as they make up 27 per cent of Harvard’s total enrolment and an even greater proportion of its revenue. One Harvard professor has called it ‘an extinction-level event’.

Harvard and its president, Alan Garber, have refused to negotiate with the administration and instead appear to be relishing the fight. Opponents of Trump – the broader Harvard community, Democrats and sympathetic media – hail Garber as a hero, the face of a renewed ‘Resistance’. Bernie Sanders has congratulated Harvard ‘for refusing to relinquish its constitutional rights to Trump’s authoritarianism’. Garber received a standing ovation at Harvard’s recent commencement ceremony.

Harvard claims it is focussed on resisting government overreach into academic affairs, specifically the administration’s ‘demands to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum, and the “ideology” of its faculty and students’. But underlying its resistance is the belief that criticisms of Harvard are largely unfounded, and that the university does not require significant reforms. Trump, in Harvard’s view, is motivated by animus toward higher education, and the issue of anti-Semitism is merely a pretext for destroying institutions he sees as hostile. Harvard professor Steven Pinker, who has previously criticised his university on free-speech issues, recently wrote that Trump and other critics suffer from ‘Harvard Derangement Syndrome’. Trump’s ‘obvious motivation is to cripple civil-society institutions that serve as loci of influence outside the executive branch’, he says.

https://amgreatness.com/2025/06/03/are-our-universities-training-our-adversaries/

Last week, the Trump administration proposed revoking the visas of Chinese students who express support for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Just days later, Harvard offered a revealing counterpoint: the Kennedy School of Government selected a Chinese student to deliver the commencement address. The speaker, Yurong “Luanna” Jiang, used language strikingly similar to the CCP’s official worldview.

Let’s consider the parallels.

In 2013, shortly after assuming power, Xi Jinping introduced a new ideological slogan: “a community with a shared future for mankind.” It quickly became central to the CCP’s global propaganda efforts. A few years later, Xi elaborated:

“A community with a shared future for mankind, as the name suggests, means that the future and destiny of every nation and country are closely interconnected. We should stand together through thick and thin, share honor and disgrace, and work hard to turn this planet—where we were born and raised—into a harmonious big family, making the aspirations of people around the world for a better life a reality.”

This phrase was enshrined in both the CCP Charter and China’s Constitution. Since then, it has served as a soft-power motif for China’s global ambitions.

Now, listen to what Ms. Jiang told Harvard graduates in her speech:

“That moment reminds me of something I used to believe when I was a kid: that the world was becoming a small village. I remember being told we would be the first generation to end hunger and poverty for humankind. My program at Harvard is International Development. It was built on this exact beautiful vision that humanity rises and falls as one.”

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/columbias-challenge-to-reverse-years-of-antisemitism-on-campus/

The Trump administration is going after colleges and universities which, in Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s words, have “ignored relentless violence, intimidation, and anti-Semitic harassment on their campuses” since the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led genocidal attacks inside Israel. Early last March, the Trump administration showed it meant business by announcing the cancellation of $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University, which became ground zero for the post October 7th campus mayhem against Jews. The Trump administration is cracking down on other institutions of higher learning as well, most notably Harvard University which has chosen to resist rather than deal meaningfully with its own antisemitism crisis.

For its part, Columbia University’s leaders early on showed callous indifference to the safety of Jewish students, faculty members, and staff caused by the antisemitic mob activities on campus. They only requested New York City police assistance as a last resort. But the university’s Task Force on Antisemitism did manage to produce two meaningless reports in March and August of last year.

The first task force report discussed disciplinary issues. However, while the task force recommended that the university should “intervene more proactively in real time” before a demonstration gets out of hand, it cautioned strongly against any physical confrontation. In other words, the university should avoid forcible removal of protesters, no matter how disruptive and threatening the protesters become. The report recommended instead such milquetoast responses as telling the offending protesters that they are violating the rules, handing them cards containing the relevant rules, and asking them to disperse within a specified time. This report makes no mention of long suspensions, expulsions, or rescinding the offending protesters’ diplomas, much less filing criminal charges.