Featured Case Studies
About the Consultant Report Card
October 20, 2021
What is the Consultant Report Card? In the spring of 2021, when we launched Parents Defending Education, a national nonprofit, parents started flooding our in-box with tips about disturbing trends…
How Pembroke Hill School Went Woke
February 15, 2022
Friday, June 5, 2020, was an eventful day in Kansas City, Mo. That day, officials at Pembroke Hill School–the most elite prep school in town and…
Springfield Public Schools Training Infused with Critical Race Theory, including ‘Gender Unicorn’ Sexuality Exercise and Racial ‘Bead Color Breakdown’
November 29, 2021
Springfield Public Schools in Missouri has been ratcheted with controversy over training infused with critical race theory. At Parents Defending Education, we studied the training and include them here so…
Going Woke at Mostly Minority Lowell High School
October 21, 2021
In August 2020, the NAACP launched a new education program, the Education and Civil Rights Initiative, in the University of Kentucky’s Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation to…
Going for Woke in Ames, Iowa
October 21, 2021
Early February 2021 saw new activism in America’s K-12 schools with “Black Lives Matter at Schools,” a new national movement, rolling out at schools across the country. It even…
The Woke Gospel at St. Luke’s School in New Canaan, Connecticut
October 21, 2021
In late 2020, New York City’s Dalton School drew headlines after trainers from Pollyanna, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, led mandatory training that included “forcing a Jewish student to play a…