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Educational History

SOURCE: New York Times
11/8/2021

Can the Democrats Take Schools Out of Politics?

by Michelle Goldberg

Times Columnist Michelle Goldberg says that the CRT controversy is obscuring the ways that Virginia's public schools are part of a long political movement to undermine public schools that got a boost from the COVID pandemic.

SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/29/2021

Violence Over Schools is Nothing New

by Sherman Dorn

"The history of education teaches us that violence surrounding democratic schooling is part of a recurring pattern and that we have a choice to passively accept or assertively confront violent impulses."

SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/6/2021

Equal School Facilities Should Be Part of "Infrastructure"

by Erika M. Kitzmiller and Akira Drake Rodriguez

A century of discriminatory policies have "set the stage for underinvestment in public education and the wide variance in school facilities that serve White and non-White youths today."