Department of Education wisely retreats from critical race theory

Common sense and decency finally won when Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona abandoned a proposed requirement that grants for civic education incorporate the outlook of the badly flawed 1619 Project.

Likewise, it is reasonable and appropriate for the nation’s schools to teach children about the evils of slavery and Jim Crow without pushing noxious themes common to critical race theory (and its near-equivalents), themes including the assertions that whites are inherently racist, that racism is the defining theme of U.S. history, and that Western civilization writ large and the ideal of the nuclear family both should be undermined.