School of Woke: How Critical Race Theory Infiltrated American Schools and Why We Must Reclaim Them

by Kenny Xu

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From one of America's most relentless critics of Critical Race Theory comes this far-reaching, on-the-ground investigation of how CRT infiltrated our public schools and transformed them into activism factories--with disastrous results. Awareness of the rise of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in public schools and how it has shaped our education system took the U.S. by storm over the last few years. Parents truly became aware for the first time how deeply entrenched CRT was in the classrooms, and show more their eyes were opened to the insidious agenda thoroughly embedded in public schools. As a result, CRT and parental rights in education became some of the most explosive issues facing Americans today. Kenny Xu is a perceptive and relentless critic of CRT and our culture's war on meritocracy. And now, in School of Woke, Xu exposes how CRT is transforming public schools and having a destructive impact on our children's education--and their future. In School of Woke, Xu provides historical context to the rise of Critical Race Theory in education, tracing it back to elite graduate schools in the 1970s and showing how the ideology became institutionalized and credentialed. Xu covers the battles taking place in the most problematic and contested school districts in the nation, including Loudoun and Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia and Santa Barbara High School in California. He also exposes the lucrative business model behind the diversity consulting industrial complex that is instrumental in the curricular wars, revealing how educators and administrators have been gaslighting the public about the prevalence of this radical ideology in the classrooms, where children as young as five are being segregated in the classroom by race and are being taught that whiteness is inherently evil. A work of colorful reportage, historical analysis, and cultural commentary, School of Woke reveals what it will take to extricate our next generation from the destructive trends in our once-vaunted public school education system. show less

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A narrative about the forces, working within schools for decades, that have managed to undermine education throughout the United States. I plan to try to read it again. It's not well written, but it lays out the playbook that is being used, almost in full view, in Massachusetts schools.

The book leads with a discussion of the wedding of Merrick Garland's daughter, Rebecca, to the CEO of Panorama Education (www.panoramaed.com), Xan Tanner. Panorama Education seems to be a company that schools hire to survey their students so that the schools can wallow in self-accusations of systemic racism. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA. (Lowell's "Project Learn" has definitely collaborated with Panorama education in the past. Here is a link to an show more invitation letter from 2020: https://www.lowell.k12.ma.us/cms/lib/MA01907636/Centricity/Domain/8/10th%20Grade... . This 2022-2023 doc also included Panorama partnerships: https://www.lowell.k12.ma.us/cms/lib/MA01907636/Centricity/Domain/2579/LHS%20QIP... .)

The book moves on to discuss the Loudon County parent protests of 2021. At that time, Brenda Sheridan was chair of the school board, but she isn't any longer. Scott Ziegler was fired by the school board in 2022, but by 2025, all criminal charges against him have been dismissed. show less

Jun 22, 2025 (Edited)

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