SC Superintendent Ellen Weaver Endorses Prager U

What are some of the specific materials included?

Last week, South Carolina Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver suddenly announced that the state Department of Education would be partnering with PragerU. The announcement included what appears to be a hastily-assembled list of state academic standards allegedly connected with a series of videos created for K-12 students by the controversial “edutainment” company.

PragerU has been in the news in previous years for its often factually inaccurate videos, many of which contain explicit arguments about how children should feel or think about hot-button issues (particularly if those issues relate the pet projects of its funders, which include hydraulic fracturing billionaires, and its video hosts, which include radical right wing trolls and pundits like Steven Crowder).

(If anyone was uncertain about how seriously to take Weaver’s statements about how children in school should be focusing on “the basics” or “the three Rs” or being protected from “woke nonsense,” the quick rollout of …