Oklahoma to test teachers from New York, California
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Teachers from “liberal” states who have relocated to Oklahoma and are seeking to work there must take a controversial new assessment developed by conservative media company PragerU.
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters' office says it plans to reveal questions from the America First Assessment test that applicants from California and New York will be required to take.
Waldron, a New Jersey native, said he would have been in the target demographic for this kind of test when he moved from Washington, D.C., to Oklahoma to teach social studies in 1999. He said it would have struck him as an indication that the state “wasn’t serious about attracting quality teachers.”
For now, Pennsylvanians looking to land a teaching job in Oklahoma won’t have to take a test designed to weed out “woke indoctrinators” seeking classroom work in the conservative Sooner State. Oklahoma will soon begin administering what Ryan Walters,
Teachers from New York or California who want jobs in Oklahoma will now have to take a special "America first" test to show they are not "woke indoctrinators."
Oklahoma's new 'America First' teacher exam, built with PragerU, tests candidates on US civics and biology, while critics say it screens for ideology, not teaching skill.
Trump's assault on academia has created an opening for the right-with pseudo-academic organization PragerU to try and fill the void with its brand of conservative content. Oklahoma State Rep. Gabe Woolley defends using PragerU content as a teacher on "The Weekend: Primetime.
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