Inside The DEI Underground Invading Public Education

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Priscilla West, researcher for the Government Accountability Institute and a chapter chair of Moms for Liberty, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to unveil how diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, disguised as "social emotional learning," are sold to schools as "education" and explain how concerned parents can fight back against the collectivism controlling classrooms across the U.S.

You can find West's book The New Face of Woke Education here.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour.
0:21.2	I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience
0:26.2	Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:29.3	As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.
0:34.3	Follow us on X at FDRLST.
0:37.3	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and, of course, to the premium version of our website as well.
0:44.2	Our guest today is Priscilla West, education researcher with the Government Accountability Institute,
0:50.0	an author of the compelling new book, The Face of Woke Education.
0:56.1	Priscilla, thank you so much for joining us in this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:59.9	Good morning, Matt. Thank you for having me.
1:02.3	You bet. This is a very compelling book because I think, you know, those who follow the issue,
1:08.2	particularly of public education and really the failure of public education
1:13.5	on so many fronts, you know, we all understand equity, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
1:22.5	We've been bombarded with that from the left.
1:25.7	We've been bombarded with, you know, anti-racism. We've been bombarded with
1:34.6	critical race theory, all of these concepts. Now, for some time, we've also been hearing
1:41.9	about social, emotional learning.
1:44.6	And that's what your book is truly all about.
1:46.5	But let's begin there.
1:47.8	What is social emotional learning?
1:50.0	And is it just one of these latest terms from the left to try to disguise indoctrination
1:58.8	with a, you know, a social, emotional learning style terminology.
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