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   YoungBlood (youngblood@social.quodverum.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 04:24:32 JST YoungBlood

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   Although Pearson set the video to “private” on its YouTube channel after Fox’s Dillon began asking questions, The Daily Signal was able to save the video’s original discussion before it was taken down:

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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 04:24:32 JST sj_zero

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     I can absolutely see why Pearson would be filled to the broom with a woke nonsense: without it, people need to start asking why they are selling a $7 textbook for $150 when the author writes it for free.
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     YoungBlood (youngblood@social.quodverum.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 04:24:33 JST YoungBlood

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     “Education is such a force for equity and change, yet systemic racism is holding back black and other ethnically diverse people in a vicious cycle,” LaWanda Stone, Pearson’s corporate affairs director, says in the video.

     The video also includes claims that President Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris as vice president was a “form” or an “act” of protest.

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     YoungBlood (youngblood@social.quodverum.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 04:24:34 JST YoungBlood

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     In a video titled “A History of Protest Movements,” several speakers explain that American society is a fortress of systemic racism that keeps black Americans from doing as well as other groups. Education (and therefore Pearson) is needed to remedy this, the speakers say.

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     YoungBlood (youngblood@social.quodverum.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 04:24:35 JST YoungBlood

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     The Daily Signal was able to obtain a copy of Pearson’s editorial standards before they disappeared online:

     Pearson’s curriculum is no small collection of books, either. Pearson currently runs one of the largest virtual charter school networks in the United States. It is one of the biggest sellers of textbooks and classroom materials for every grade level in American public and private schools.

     Pearson isn’t only a behemoth to K-12 students.

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     YoungBlood (youngblood@social.quodverum.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 04:24:35 JST YoungBlood

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     The massive corporation oversees the company that operates USA Hire, which Butcher describes as “a website operated by the [U.S.] Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Applicants for positions in the federal government use this website to submit their application materials … ”

     This racially segregationist hiring focus is best portrayed in a video that Pearson deleted from their website.

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     YoungBlood (youngblood@social.quodverum.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 04:24:36 JST YoungBlood

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     The report by Butcher, who is Heritage’s Will Skillman senior research fellow in education policy, points out that Pearson’s editorial guidelines have made “antiracism,” “colorism,” “colonial discourse,” “genderism,” and “intersectionality” a facet of every action taken by Pearson and its staff and every piece of curriculum Pearson publishes.

     After Butcher and Fox News reporter Kassy Dillon began to ask questions, London-based Pearson took its editorial standards offline.

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     YoungBlood (youngblood@social.quodverum.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 04:24:37 JST YoungBlood

     https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/14/caught-top-education-publisher-deletes-woke-evidence-after-heritage-foundation-report/?utm_source=63red.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=63red

     After Heritage Foundation scholar Jonathan Butcher began looking into the racially and sexually charged practices of publishing and education behemoth Pearson, links and videos started to disappear from the corporation’s website and YouTube channel.

     Butcher’s new report for Heritage, released Wednesday, shows that the largest education corporation on the planet has made a considerable commitment to pushing critical race theory in everything they produce.