From NoIndoctrination.org, excerpts from a course evaluation of Portland State's Education 420, a graduate course on education and society required for all who want to become teachers:

After one of the few mainstream readings, on multiculturalism in education by Diane Ravitch (former Undersecretary of Education in the first Bush Administration), the professor commented on how wrongheaded but "very seductive" her writing was. We were told that as white males (if we were white males - which I am, as were 2 or 3 other people) we needed to recognize that we were "persons of privilege". No evidence was offered for this, nor were any reasons given that this might not be the case. We were told that we (all of us who were white anyway) were racists and that we could not help not being racists and that we needed to recognize this.

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There were very few readings that offered anything in terms of an alternative point of view to extreme liberalism/socialism. The assigned readings for one week were by Carol Gilligan and the American Assn of University Women on the subject of how girls were discriminated against in education (with no alternative opinon offered). I asked a couple of weeks in advance if the professor could list as optional reading Christina Hoff Somers' "The War Against Boys" article from The Atlantic Monthly (which persuasively refutes the tenets of the aformentioned Gilligan and AAUW articles) as alternative reading. I gave him my copy of the magazine to review 2 weeks in advance. All he had to do was list the Atlantic web site address on where to find the article to list it as optional reading...no worrys about copys or copyrights. I never heard back from him about my request (although he did give me the magazine back a few weeks later) and it did NOT appear as part of the optional reading...

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One of the books, "Rethinking Our Classrooms" was from http://www.rethinkingschools.org/. I would call this book nonsense if only the ideas inside of it weren't so off base as to be harmful. It provides practical ways in which your children can be taught about the horrible injustices of capitalism and the wonderful world of communism (yes, it teaches only about the wonderful theoretical parts of communism on a child's level). Whites are persons of privilege and only whites can be racist because only whites have the power to be oppressors. Basic skills are trashed. I kept this book...but only as a great example of how some "teachers" (people who SHOULD be teaching children ACADEMIC subjects but apparently don't have the time for that) are trying to indoctrinate children.

The syllabi of ed courses like this one tell us a great deal about how blatantly ideological our system of teacher training is. There is a saying that those who can't do, teach. Perhaps there should also be a saying that those who can't teach, indoctrinate.