The New York Sun says aspiring teachers who attend Brooklyn College in New York are being evaulated based on their politics and a commitment to "social justice."
The School of Education at the CUNY campus has initiated a new method of judging teacher candidates based on their "dispositions," a term critics say is being used to judge students based on how closely their political views coincide with those of the teacher.
As an example of the potential for abuse, the paper says students in a required language course who challenged assistant professor Priya Parmar's assertion that standard English is the language of oppressors while Ebonics is the language of the oppressed were accused of "bullying" their professor and given lower grades
