New education standards include climate ideology, gay history, ‘math identity rainbows’

In New Jersey, educators are pushing new English language arts and math standards that include climate change and “environmental justice.”

Second graders in Washington, D.C.’s school system will learn abut the “histories of same-sex relationships.” In California, the new math curriculum includes classroom activities such as “math identity rainbows.”

“What should be a straightforward exercise in setting high academic standards has devolved, in several states, into a free-for-all of cramming woke nonsense into every corner of curriculum,” Angela Morabito, a former Department of Education press secretary and current spokesperson of the Defense of Freedom Institute, wrote for The Federalist on Tuesday.

New Jersey’s new standards stipulate that the rising generation of New Jerseyans must have the skills to “create alternate discourses to change the present and shape the future.” The standards also demand that teachers help students “become involved in the issues of our age, which include climate change and environmental justice.”