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How an Alabama classroom and a right-wing reading list put a fresh rip in America’s partisan divide

Quoted: “There is a huge distrust within the political sphere and it would be surprising if it did not extend to formal institutions like schools,” said Diana Hess, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education and co-author of the 2015 book “The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education.”