Last week, the Prospect reported that students across the country have been shown right-wing content from nonprofit educational video maker PragerU for years, even though it was supposedly intended for adults. Since last fall, however, the conservative organization has aggressively fundraised for PragerU Resources for Educators and Parents (PREP), a new education program targeted directly at school-age children. In the initiative’s first batch of education-specific content, released Monday, PragerU now has videos aimed at children as young as kindergarten age.
The content includes online videos and other materials designed for ages 5 to 18. This material is meant to be shown in school or at home, and although the videos aren’t as overtly political as PragerU’s typical five-minute videos for adults, they are still suffused with right-wing propaganda.
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