critical race theory

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• SOURCE: ProPublica
  6/16/2022
  

  White Conservative Parents Got an Educator Fired, then Chased Her to Her Next Job

  Cecelia Lewis was hired as a Georgia school district's first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion administrator. A national organization helped local parents get her fired. 

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• SOURCE: Scalawag
  6/14/2022
  

  Teaching Black History in Virginia Just Got Tougher

  Glenn Youngkin's attack on "divisive" history lessons clearly put the wishes of conservative whites at the center of the debate about curriculum. Now, a planned change to increase Black history in Virginia schools is on hold and Black students and families ask why their concerns are unheard. 

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• 6/12/2022
  

  Florida's Divisive Concepts Bill Mistakes What Historians Do, with Dire Implications

  by Jessica L. Adler

  The legislation would make it difficult – and even legally risky – for professors to perform the kinds of source-driven teaching that underlies the pedagogical goals of the discipline. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  6/8/2022
  

  Anti-CRT Legislation at Fever Pitch in States

  Suzanne Nossel of PEN America argues that legislation that dictates what can be taught is at "the top of the pyramid" in terms of the broad array of threats to free speech on campuses. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  5/26/2022
  

  The Dunce Party

  by Rachel Bryan

  Tennessee's "Divisive Concepts" bill would make it virtually impossible to teach the history and culture of the state and the wider South. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  5/24/2022
  

  School Privatizers are Carrying the Culture War Banner

  Moral panics are proving useful for a right-wing agenda of undermining public trust in public education; America's oligarchs are stoking them, argues a school social worker. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/24/2022
  

  The CRT and "Don't Say Gay" Panics Aren't About Controlling Public Schools, but Destroying Them

  by Adam Laats

  In the 1920s, the KKK sought to strengthen and control the public schools as vehicles to teach their version of "100% Americanism"; today's culture warriors hope to undermine trust in schools as a way to defund and privatize them. 

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• SOURCE: Academe Blog
  5/19/2022
  

  What We Must Learn from the Boise State Hoax

  by John K. Wilson

  Boise State suspended multiple sections of a core course affecting nearly 1,300 students based on a lie told by a state legislator about the alleged mistreatment of a conservative student by fellow students and a professor; expect more of these attacks on higher education funding.

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  5/18/2022
  

  Historians on Teaching with Integrity in the Face of "Gag Laws"

    Leonard Moore, Katharina Matro, Julia Brookins, Kathleen Hilliard, James Grossman, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, and James Sweet describe how their ability to examine the past honestly and students' freedom to learn support democracy. 

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• SOURCE: UT Daily Beacon
  4/27/2022
  

  University of Tennessee Must Take Stand to Call Out State CRT Bill as Exercise in White Supremacy

  by David Barber

  "Our students, and our society, desperately need to hear and learn the real history of this country – a history of this country that has no better telling than that history as seen through the eyes and experience of Black people."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/16/2022
  

  Calling Culture War a "Distraction" Mistakes its Meaning

  by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

  The right is fighting to make sure that one group's values are more influential than any others'. It's impossible to separate this from material politics, and the left needs to connect its values to changing the way people live. 

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• SOURCE: ChalkBeat
  5/3/2022
  

  Where Americans Agree and Disagree on Teaching Race in School

  Polls show that 2/3 of Americans think schools need to change how much attention they give to race in the curriculum, but they are split, along party and racial lines, between those who want more and those who want less, making this likely to remain a political wedge issue.

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• SOURCE: PEN America
  4/28/2022
  

  With Educational Gag Orders, The Vagueness is the Point

  The failure of states to offer precise guidance for which lessons are acceptable and which aren't suggests that "divisive concepts" laws and other legislation are intended to chill teachers' ability to discuss politically sensitive subjects. 

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• SOURCE: Patheos
  4/27/2022
  

  What Makes a Conservative Christian College?

  by Andrea L. Turpin

  What does it mean when a self-identified "Conservative Christian" college determines that it has violated its own mission by teaching Critical Race Theory? Is the violation religious or political in nature? 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/26/2022
  

  How "Divisive Concepts" Laws are Targeting Universities

  A survey of recent legislation affecting the teaching of "divisive concepts" in history and other courses, plus changes to what kinds of diversity trainings are required or permitted in multiple states. 

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• SOURCE: Truthout
  4/25/2022
  

  The Dark Money Behind KBJ Attacks Is Coming for Public Schools

  by Alyssa Bowen

  "Dark Money" organizations allow a small group of elite families to use their wealth to control the content of education around the country. 

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• SOURCE: Florida Today
  4/17/2022
  

  CRT Not What You've Been Told, Florida Professor Tells Public

  Michael Butler, author of two books on the civil rights struggle in Florida, told an audience that the controversy was being stoked to prevent constructive public debate by folding all historical discussion of racism into a "frightening, dangerous, scary" term. 

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• SOURCE: Nature
  4/12/2022
  

  Campus CRT Battles Recall 1920s Evolution Fight

  by Adam Laats

  Faculty and teachers who want to fight back against the Critical Race Theory panic can take the high ground by stressing the importance of quality research and teaching, if the 1920s are a guide. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3/30/2022
  

  Nationwide, Faculty Fight for Academic Freedom

  by Ellen Schrecker

  "When they act collectively, professors have the power to protect academic freedom and the desire to teach the truth. Let us hope they also have the will."

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• SOURCE: American Association of University Professors
  4/1/2022
  

  AAUP ID's Legislative Threats to Academic Freedom: Redefinitions of Antisemitism and Racism

  A recent AAUP report connects two politicized areas of inquiry – the history of racism in America and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – as the principal targets of right-wing efforts to censor reseach and teaching.