Book Excerpt
“The Peril of Woke Schools and the Value of Traditional Education,” edited by Frontier Centre for Public Policy Senior Fellows William Brooks and Rodney A. Clifton, is a landmark collection of essays that expose the influence of progressive-woke ideology on North American schools and what this development has cost Canadian children, their families, and society. The following essay is excerpted from the book.
Statistics say that about 14 percent of Canadian 15-year-olds score below Level 2 in reading on OECD’s PISA test, meaning they are not reaching the baseline proficiency expected in many countries.
In fact, almost half of Canadian adults are assessed as having inadequate literacy skills—not utterly illiterate but lacking the reading, writing, comprehension, and numeracy skills needed for many everyday tasks. This means that a significant number of students emerge from 12 or 13 years of mandatory schooling unable to reliably write coherent paragraphs, tackle abstract-thinking tasks, or fully engage with complex texts….