Saxe found that the programs at CU-Boulder and Metro were saturated with political dogmas and pedagogical theories that were incompatible with the educational reforms mandated by Colorado law. Current reform efforts are motivated by a desire to teach all of America's children to be literate and numerate in order to be successful in our complex modern economy. A commitment to relevant instructional methods and course content is essential. In the schools of education at CU-Boulder and Metro, Saxe found instead a commitment to a radical social and political agenda nowhere called for by Colorado law or policy. To those who embrace that agenda, Western civilization is something to be scorned rather than understood and perpetuated.
American history is taught as a sorry record of injustice and oppression of minorities.
The diversity of human thought and experience is reduced to a set of crude variations on the theme of racial, ethnic, class, gender and homophobic bigotry. Saxe found no reference in its syllabus to Colorado education laws and learning standards. This course begins the project of ideological indoctrination that guides the rest of the program. The schools have a responsibility to impart a knowledge of our country's unique contributions to the progress of human rights and constitutional democracy. Equipped with such an education, we can intelligently identify and debate our culture's shortcomings.