What is Monoculturalism

The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new era of education within the United States. The standardized testing and accountability regimes are under siege by teachers, parents, and students who have realized that individual student growth and emotional support need to be the driving factors in schools. In order to recenter education upon the students, schools are going to have to expand their understanding of the concept of diversity beyond the black/white polarity, appreciate the idea of multiple intelligences, support the different ways pupils learn and demonstrate their knowledge, and revisit higher education's fixation on standardized entrance examinations as part of the admissions process. The reformulating of American education is not a novel idea but one that dates back to the early 1900s and merges back into the stream of educational systems across the globe.