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This month, Oklahoma’s education department announced an innovative new approach to screening aspiring teachers in the state: any applicants from “woke” states would need to first pass an ideology test created by the right-wing group PragerU.

It was an announcement that seemed engineered to draw national news coverage and inflame liberal audiences. Under this plan, teachers from states with “progressive education policies” would be tested on the U.S. Constitution, American exceptionalism, and “the fundamental biological differences between boys and girls.” The screening is guaranteed to test teachers for a deeply MAGA-inflected understanding of U.S. history, g

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