California needs to get ethnic studies right before mandating it

A year ago, the California Department of Education released a draft of guidelines for implementing “ethnic studies” in public high schools.
It unleashed a torrent of controversy — for good reason.
The 303-page document was ersatz Marxist agitprop that, if adopted, would have drummed into young minds the notion that in America, anyone not a white male is virtually enslaved.
“At its core,” the draft declared, “the field of ethnic studies is the interdisciplinary