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According to a new report from the American Enterprise Institute, coverage of Critical Race Theory (CRT) by seven publications did not discuss its bedrock assumptions, obscuring the debate over whether the ideology is being — and whether it should be — adopted in public school curricula.
Analyzing the treatment of CRT in 91 articles across the seven publications, AEI senior fellow Frederick Hess discovered that much of the commentary did not offer a comprehensive assessment of the intellectual underpinnings of CRT that have drawn the strongest objections from critics.
Among those mostly ignored underpinnings were the rejection of rationality, objectivity, individual merit, and equality. These aspects of CRT represent a departure from classical liberalism and mainstream political thought, but there’s been little mention of these premises in the press, Hess reports.
“An attentive observer could read literally dozens of news stories regarding CRT in major press outlets and the education press and never even encounter the extraordinary claims at the heart of a raging national debate,” Hess concluded.
Only around two percent of the total articles Hess reviewed in the included three education, and four news outlets, mentioned the skepticism of rational thinking, liberalism, universal values, and objective knowledge intrinsic to CRT.
