Education & Politics in the Classroom The article "Politics in the Classroom," written by Lynne Cheney, discusses one of the crucial and important issues about education and its function to the society -- how history is utilized to propagate political propagandas for particular sectors in the society. Cheney focuses on how American history is taught to students with the intention of influencing students to believe ideologies that illustrate certain sectors of the society in a positive light, while other ideologies negatively portray other sectors of the society. The author discusses how gender, race, and social ideologies serve as the primary factors that affect America's history. History, as taught in schools, may portray Westerners as conquerors or colonizers, and Africans and other societies from the Eastern region as slaves, without taking into account the fact that, in fact, that "African kings or Arab traders for centuries preceding and following the trans-Atlantic slave trade." Feminism also pervades American history, wherein the female...

Lastly, Cheney also cites how social phenomenon such as the development of technology has always been portrayed as a positive societal development. This propaganda was supported in American history teaching without so much focus on technology's detrimental effects to society, specifically with the increasingly deteriorating condition of the environment that society lives in. In sum, the article illustrates that there is an emerging change in teaching in America's classroom, especially in teaching the country's history. As asserted in Cheney's article, teaching and education in general has ceased to be an 'objective' endeavor; rather, subjectivity has taken the place of objectivity in providing students with a more realistic and truthful portrayal of American history. Thus, learning has become meaningful…