Katherine Kersten is a conservative commentator and policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment in Minnesota. She contributed articles to The Weekly Standard focusing on education policy, particularly critiquing progressive curricula, social justice programs in public schools, and sex education initiatives. Her work frequently examined controversies in Minnesota's education system.
For decades, the public schools of Edina, Minnesota, were the gold standard among the state’s school districts. Edina is an upscale suburb of Minneapolis, but virtually overnight, its reputation has changed. Academic rigor is unraveling, high school reading and math test scores are sliding, and…
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Liberal Minnesota is the last place you'd expect to find an anti-"sex-ed" revolution. But in Osseo, a large suburban district near Minneapolis, parents fed up with "value-neutral" sexuality instruction have overthrown the old regime. Starting in 1999, Osseo schools will offer a two-track sex-ed…