Department of Education touting leftist radicals

What? No Dept. of Education?

Little Marathon Pundit came home from school a few months ago and told me that she learned that the signers of the Declaration of Independence were all men, all Protestant, and some of them were slaveholders. I quickly clarified matters. One signer, Charles Carroll of Maryland, was Catholic. As for those Protestants, theologically speaking, they were quite a diverse bunch. Most were Episcopalian, but members of the Unitarian, Presbyterian, and the Congregationalist faiths also signed that historic document.

As for slavery, the belief  among many of the signers at the time was that this despicable practice would fade away over time. They were of course wrong.

But it could be worse for Little Marathon Pundit. Doug Ross reports that the Department of Education--something our country survived without for 204 years--through its Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), is touting the works of leftist radicals such Saul Alinsky, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, and it is promoting the benefits of state-run media.

Back to Little Marathon Pundit: The Continental Congress not only wrote the Declaration, it also produced the Northwest Ordinance, which among other things, prohibited slavery in the region that later comprised the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois.

I'll wager a large sum that her teacher never heard of the Northwest Ordinance.

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