Only one publisher met all of Florida’s requirements for K-5 math textbooks.
The winner was Houston-based Accelerate Learning.
The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm, acquired Accelerate Learning on Dec. 20, 2018, according to the firm’s website.
During that time, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin was the co-CEO of the firm. After 25 years with the company, Youngkin resigned in 2020 to run for office in Virginia.
The first thing Youngkin did as governor of Virginia was sign an executive order to “end the use of inherently divisive concepts, including critical race theory, and restoring excellence in K-12 public education in the commonwealth,” a measure that’s comparable to DeSantis’ “Stop WOKE Act.”
The story reviewed Accelerate’s website and learned the following:
Accelerate Learning’s website includes an undated diversity statement which says the company commits to hold more diversity training, examine current business and recruitment practices and continue to be inclusive in all levels of the company.
“Our nation’s black communities have long faced the repeated, harmful effects of systemic racism within the justice and education systems,” the statement said.
The company also matched all employee donations to the NAACP, Black Lives Matter and Equal Justice organizations.
“Accelerate Learning, Inc. is committed to supporting diversity in all its manifestations, which requires a consequent commitment to equity and inclusivity,” the statement said.
Sounds like the winner of the math textbook competition is woke and espouses critical race theory.
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For sure, let someone hold your beer before you read Dana Milbank’s WP opinion piece, “DeSantis saves Florida kids from being indoctrinated with math”…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/19/florida-math-textbooks-critical-race-theory/
I got at least a dozen deep belly laughs reading that.
Perhaps it’s just the paranoia (well-founded these days) generated by the social and political milieu in which we are immersed, but it’s possible — in view of the fact that Youngkin was the CEO of Accelerate Learning — what we are witnessing is the use of anti-CRT legislation to create markets for specific textbook publishers and that the “woke” posture of Accelerate is merely a mask.
Other textbook publishers should be concerned that one of the reasons for anti-CRT laws is to force them out of the market, even if they comply with the laws — which they should not. Also, what happened to Disney in Florida shows American corporate leaders the clear and present danger that Republican ideologues and ideology present for corporations and for corporate leaders. Any corporation that contributes support to any Republican politician is contributing to the end of corporate freedom and profitability.
From wikipedia: The Carlyle Group is an American multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation. It specializes in private equity, real assets, and private credit. In 2015, Carlyle was the world’s largest private equity firm by capital raised over the previous five years, according to the PEI 300 index,[4] though by 2020 it had slipped into second place. end quote
The Carlyle Group and education?! Huh, oh wait, the CG is perfect for the privatization of education and turning it into a profit source for unscrupulous phony baloney edumacators.
Isn’t this a perfect example of fascism, the merging of government and corporations into one giant blob?
Sounds like their woke is broke.
On the one hand, “supporting diversity,” and, “a commitment to equity and inclusivity” technically aren’t critical race theory; on the other hand, the original definition of the term has become irrelevant. “CRT” is now just a convenient non-descriptive dog whistle for members of the Repub… — oops, I mean Neoconfederate — Party to say they’re against those policies without actually naming the concepts they oppose, because that would be… ummm… not nice.*
When someone speaks against “CRT,” we should ask them to specify precisely what concepts they’re objecting to. Let’s just accept their definition, but make them say out loud exactly what they’re against. Don’t allow them to hide behind a set of innocuous initials.
I now avoid saying the “r” word because as soon as it’s spoken, it dismisses whatever issues the discussion is really about & turns it to whether the term applies to the person it’s directed towards & whether the speaker is qualified to make that determination. Therefore, use of the term is self-defeating & counterproductive.
The Neoconfederate Party. That’s on the money. I’m adopting that one going forward!
Spread the word!
It also sounds like some if not most elected Republicans are playing the “unwoke” zombies that willingly live in an alternate reality, to stir them up, get their anger and hate boiling over nonexistent issues, so they will turn out during this year’s midterms and tip the election in the GOP’s favor, retaking one or both houses of Congress.
In short, tell the lunatic MAGA fringe what they have been programmed to want to hear. so they will elect more Republicans to office, and then once they are in office, they’ll do whatever it takes to increase their power and wealth and turn the US into a kleptocratic controlled battlefield designed to benefit only the heavily guarded autoreacts at the top while dividing the working class into factions that can’t get along and resorts to violence to resolve manufactured issues.
such a transparent game
All major corporations are now “woke”. My friend works for one of the big education publishers. She says they rolled out all the diversity inclusion and equity training. She also says that the front line and middle management have no clue what those terms even mean. She sums it up as pure marketing, focused externally not internally.
We live in a society that has become addicted to political activism. “Activism” has become a multi billion dollar marketing scheme that is aided and abetted by social media.
Activism matters.
Are you suggesting the civil rights movement was unnecessary?
Change happens when people do their best, do what they can.
They may be sit-ins, walkouts, whatever they can organize.
If we learned anything from four years of a Donald Trump presidency, it should have been this: The profound prejudices of a significant portion of the American people that existed in, say, the 1950s, prejudices against people of color, immigrants, foreigners, gay and lesbian persons, transgender persons, people with other than Protestant Christian fundamentalist religious beliefs, and so on, prejudices that showed themselves in lynchings, for example, did not disappear and were barely, if at all, ameliorated. Instead, they were driven underground by media and legislation and by the awakening of some half of the populace. Yes, awakening–that’s the truth behind the supposed pejorative “woke.”
But in a significant portion of the populace, those old prejudices and still profound. They are an amalgam of fear and actual LOATHING of whatever isn’t straight, white, and fundamentalist Protestant. In the current climate, those who harbor these hatreds won’t say in public what they actually think and feel about these matters. They will couch their pushback in equivocations, as when white supremacists express their “concern” that “critical race theory is racist” or evoke the name of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., when pushing a piece of racist legislation.
But in private and among their own, such people still say what they really think and feel, and it’s as extreme as it gets. And given the opportunity, if the leaders of this anti-wokeness movement seize the levers of power, they will take extreme measures–whatever measures are from their point of view necessary–to institutionalize and enforce their prejudices, to turn back the clock, via state violence. A society that would give these people what they want is not a democratic society. It’s a brutal, repressive, fascist one.
Progressives underestimate the enemy. They can’t imagine how extreme are those who fear and hate whatever is to them the Other. And they dramatically underestimate how far these people will take things. Ironically, our pop culture media have a better handle on this.
If you think I am being alarmist here, let me remind you that there were those who were called alarmist when they warned of what was coming with Hitler. And nobody could have imagined, in 1930, the death camps (even among those who eventually ordered and ran them).
Do you think that it couldn’t happen here? Then you are deluded. Consider this: could you have imagined, ten years ago, that a president of the United States would attempt to overthrow an election by throwing out the popular vote and having goons storm the Capitol, that people would be killed by this mob, and that that president would GET AWAY WITH THIS–walking away from his attempted coup to go play golf and live like a rajah and play kingmaker while people fretted about whether it was possible to do anything about this?
cx: while people fretted about whether it was possible, in a democracy that supposedly operates under the rule of just and equitable laws, to do anything about this?
cx: But in a significant portion of the populace, those old prejudices are still profound. They are as extreme as they ever were, and like the dragon in its lair, await only being roused.
Today, it’s math books. Tomorrow? It’s The Handmaid’s Tale and The Man in the High Castle.