Stay in the middle, with forays and acknowledgements to both sides if that is your bent

Present the political spectrum, with characteristic beliefs of major perspectives -- liberalism, conservatism

Ridiculing liberals is so small-minded

$17,000 per capital income, 26 PC at or below poverty. A way to keep the status quo by discouraging the 60 PC poor white Republican population from joining ranks with the 35 PC poor Democratic black residents to vote for real change that truly would elevate all their lives, white and black alike.

washing techniques . They must be stopped or this country is finished .

I wouldn't mind that actually if they also allowed say a Micheal Moore book or Naomi Klein or Noam Chomsky as a counter weight. Because when you would read them both back to back, the smarter ones at least, would be able to see which side had the facts on their side. But I suspect this balance is not present in their criteria.

and those continuing complaints are really reassuring.

Used to agree 100% with your thoughts. Sadly, I no longer think that the more and broader the education the better, that education will elevate all minds.

Science has fairly recently discovered that people are genetically wired to conservative or liberal personalities of various strengths (like the extremism of that horrible teacher) before environment starts its influence. It explains so much.

Because of that reality, some people graduate and fairly promptly reject all knowledge that contradicts what their personalities dispose them to believe. Level of intelligence doesn't matter when personality trumps intelligence. Like Bannon, they just adopt better sounding arguments.

Experts are reportedly trying to figure out how to inculcate a basic respect for truth and knowledge and make analytical thought a habit in more people while we still have them captive in school.

Intil we do that, perhaps we should be careful about what we recommend kids read or view outside the classroom setting. Turns out "normal" people are not all cognitively equipped to protect themselves from unbalancing influences, may even be particularly vulnerable to them. And no more exposing Boy Scouts to President Trump!

or, maybe they are taught in school that they can't migrate from Alabama to the US.

But, by now we should all know that it's what we ourselves are made of that mostly determines the kind of person we are, and our abilities to reason and value truth.

If it were mostly the state we live in, blue states would of course produce far fewer small-minded fools and committed trumpsters than they sadly do.

I mistakenly thought we were talking about ONE of the books on the reading list.
Every single one of them is either of a conservative bent or a downright CT whacko extremist hate fest. And since when did Michael Savage or any of these RW authors attain any kind of literary achievement worthy of being used by educators? Most I'm sure even used ghost writers and its not even their own actual work.

I imagined maybe the reading list had books from across the spectrum, but alas no.

Not even gonna ask what they teach on evolution!