If your child is studying for teacher certification anywhere in the United States, chances are he or she will be required to attend classes on “multicultural education”. Since the 1990s, multicultural education has permeated institutions of higher learning, claiming to bring enlightenment and diversity to the classroom. But, needless to say, all is not what it seems.
Multicultural education is ostensibly about preparing teachers to enter a profession in which a growing number of their pupils will not be of the same ethnic or national background. Thanks to post-1965 immigration policy, this is a very real issue—in 2005 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that 45 percent of American children under the age of five belonged to minority groups.
But the sad reality is that, rather than address the demographic change in American youth and its impact on the public school system, leftist academics have played a shell game—they spout this reasonable- sounding goal while using it to mask their own political and social agenda.
Indeed, as Athena Kerry has previously pointed out in her 2006 VDARE.com article on multicultural education, some educators, such as Paul C. Gorski [Email him] of EdChange, have openly expressed a more social and political goal. Gorski wrote frankly: “Multiculturalism isn't about everyone agreeing and getting along, it is about naming and eliminating the inequalities in education”. [The IS and the ISN'T of Multicultural Education, EdChange.org, 2003]
