The ideological school of early American history, inaugurated by Bernard Bailyn, was interested in the content of people's minds (many minds, it turned out, were filled with paranoid ravings).
We often think of textbook stories as being immediate and consequential when it comes to political and social outcomes, particularly in an openly ideological school system.
In late August, two dozen Chinese public intellectuals from four of the country's main ideological schools — Confucian, New Left, Liberal and Christian — met at Oxford University's Wycliffe Hall to discuss their country's problems.
"These children were born on the Coalition's watch and have been let down by a government that prioritised the ideological free school programme over ensuring that every child has a school place".
However, Ms Blower responded: "While the Government continues to play politics with schools in pursuit of its own ideological agenda, schools in the real world are suffering the fall-out from 10 per cent budget cuts in real terms and a growing teacher crisis as fewer recruits enter the profession and more experienced teachers choose to leave it".
Labour will pledge to stop state schools employing unqualified teachers - and promise to bring an end to the current Government's "ideological obsession" with school structures.
Professor Chemerinsky said he had had big plans for the new law school, ideological diversity among them.
The mayor's candidate, Ninfa Segarra, won after a bitter battle by securing the vote of a board member, Irving S. Hamer Jr., who has usually been in the opposite ideological camp on school issues.
The truth, of course, is that there is nothing "ideological" about free schools – if by "ideological", Miliband means that supporters of these new schools need to subscribe to one particular world view.
Yet despite reportedly meeting with a trans man in early 2015 a step in itself some interpreted as a push for tolerance—Francis said just last year that being trans "is against nature," and called the normalization of trans lives within schools "ideological colonization".
Colorado Democrat, Sen. Michael Bennet, the non-educator who ran the Denver Public Schools, is symbolic of the ideological nature of corporate school reform.
