The Dogmas of American Education: A Panel Discussion • Part 3

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In this episode, we discuss the educational dogmas presented by Thomas Sowell in Chapter 4 of his 1993 classic "Inside American Education."
In Episode 14 we listened to a 1993 interview with Thomas Sowell about the book.
In Episode 15, I summarized the first 3 chapters of the book and interviewed elementary school teacher Ramona Bessinger about whether or not the observations made by Sowell match her 23 years experience as a teacher.
In this episode we discuss the 6 dogmas outlined by Sowell in Chapter 4:
1) Multicultural diversity
2) Sensitivity
3) Relevance
4) Educating the whole person
5) Role Models, and
6) Self esteem

We are joined by a panel of well known public school teachers:

• Ramona Bessinger: a 23 year veteran English teacher in Providence, RI. Twitter: @RamonaBessinger
• Frank McCormick: Frank has taught history for 10 years at Waukegan High School and Loyola Academy in Illinois. He is an outspoken critic of the critical social justice movement and expresses his views on his Youtube channel HERE and on his Substack HERE.
Twitter: @CBHeresy
• Tony Kinnett: Tony was a public school science teacher in Indianapolis as well as a school administrator. He was fired from both of those positions for speaking out in opposition to an educational agenda which he feels is harmful to his students. He is also the founder of the “The Chalkboard Review” which is a website dedicated to featuring a diverse range of voices on all topics education related. Twitter: @TheTonus.
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