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Convinced schools are brainwashing kids to be left-wingers, conservatives are seizing control of the American classroom.

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Quick, what is the most important issue facing the country right now? If your answer was “education,” you’d be in the tiny 4 percent minority of Americans that believes the same. And yet, with a suddenness and vehemence that have gone underappreciated in the political press, education has emerged in the last two years as the single most pressing subject on the right, a magnet for all the conspiratorial energies brewing in the Republican Party on issues ranging from race to gender to LGBTQ rights. As New York‘s Jonathan Chait shows in this incisive survey, the conservative obsession with education is not just an exercise in messaging or political posturing — it is injecting right-wing ideology into the classroom, remaking the education system in states across the country.

— Ryu Spaeth, features editor, New York

Indoctrination Nation Convinced schools are brainwashing kids to be left-wingers, conservatives are seizing control of the American classroom.

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