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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
1/24/2023
College Faculty: After K-12, Curriculum Laws are Coming For You
by James Grossman and Jeremy C. Young
State colleges involved with concurrent enrollment programs that allow high school students to take classes for credit are already susceptible to laws purporting to fight "indoctrination" in the secondary school curriculum. More intrusions on academic freedom are coming.
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SOURCE: Substack
1/23/2023
Banished Podcast: Sunshine State's Descent Into Darkness
by Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
Two historian podcasters evaluate the effort to politicize the history curriculum in Florida's K-12 schools and public colleges.
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SOURCE: American Association of University Professors
1/20/2023
AAUP: Florida's Censorship Cannot Stand
"That the only ideas the presidents wish to suppress relate to race is revealing."
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SOURCE: MSNBC
1/23/2023
Prof. Marvin Dunn: I was Teaching Before DeSantis was Born
Prof. Dunn discusses Florida's divisive concepts law and refusal to accept an AP course in African American Studies with MSNBC's Joy Ann Reid
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SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
1/20/2023
National AAUP Condemns Florida University Presidents' Pledge to Root out Critical Race Theory
"The national organization, founded in 1915, stated it was 'appalled at the blatant violation of academic freedom' and said it was exploring options, including an investigation and possible censure."
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/21/2023
Florida Offers Justifications for Rejecting AP African American Studies Course
The state has contended that the curriculum prioritizes indoctrination over education, but their claims distort the meaning of some key terms.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/21/2023
Marvin Dunn: Florida Prof Defies New Laws to "Teach the Truth"
The Professor Emeritus at Florida International University says that he can't teach about the history of racist terrorism in the state without registering disgust for the actions of lynch mobs or offering clarity about the political purposes of the violence.
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SOURCE: Daily Beast
1/19/2023
Florida's Ban on AP African American Studies Class is Authoritarian
by Jeremy C. Young
The decision is "bad for free speech and for educational practice, and it's especially worrisome for Florida high school students. When politicians go to war with teachers, students always lose."
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SOURCE: Al Jazeera
1/15/2023
Critical Race Theory? Critical Race Facts
by Donald Earl Collins
Attacks on CRT and other scholarly investigations of inequality are premised on the idea that systemic inequality is fake. The evidence is in, and this is indefensible as a question of fact.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
1/17/2023
Ilya Shapiro and Chris Rufo Urge State Legislators to Force Colleges to Change
by Ilya Shapiro and Christopher Rufo
Two prominent critics of "wokeness" and "critical race theory" in higher education lay out their suggestions for how state legislators can enact the changes they want to see in public colleges and universities—outside of changes to the curriculum.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/18/2023
DeSantis Merging Fear of Lessons on Race and Sexuality with Attacks on Public Education
by Jonathan Feingold
Ron DeSantis's General Counsel defined "woke" as “the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.” The governor's education agenda is neatly summed up by this statement, and it's spreading nationwide.
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1/22/2023
Why CRT Belongs in the Classroom, and How to Do It Right
by Stacie Brensilver Berman, Robert Cohen, and Ryan Mills
"If classroom realities matter at all to those governors and state legislators who imposed CRT bans on schools, they ought to be embarrassed at having barred students in their states from the kind of thought provoking teaching we witnessed in this project."
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SOURCE: The Nation
1/11/2023
Florida Man Calls the Thought Police
by Victor Ray
"Another word for believing in systemic inequality is 'reality.' Few legitimate social scientists claim otherwise, as an overwhelming body of evidence supports structural accounts of racism." By suppressing this reality, DeSantis reaches back to the McCarthy era's suppression of thinking about racism.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/11/2023
The Right's Chaos Politics Meet Institutional Inertia in the Fight for Florida's New College
by Brian Rosenberg
"The reference to Hillsdale and not to a 'great books' college like St. John’s in Annapolis totally gives away the game: This is not about teaching the Western canon but about scoring political points and creating not a traditional college but a conservative Republican college."
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/11/2023
DeSantis's New College Coup Will Fail
by Adam Laats
Transforming colleges along ideological lines is much more difficult than amassing political power or appointing allies to governing boards. Conservatives are able to operate successful and ideologically friendly institutions when they accept that they will be occupy a niche, not change the ecosystem.
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SOURCE: Firstcoast News
1/4/2022
Jacksonville Schools Consider Rejecting Book on Hank Aaron for Elementary Schools
Does the story of the discrimination Aaron experienced as a teenaged minor-leaguer in Florida run afoul of the state's "Individual Freedom Act"?
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SOURCE: Popular Information
1/9/2023
Students of Teacher Behind 150+ Book Ban Requests Detail History of Racism, Homophobia
by Judd Legum
The classroom conduct and public social media statements of a Florida teacher who is exercising the provisions of new legislation to ban books presenting Black perspectives on racism show that the law can easily be hijacked by motivated bigots.
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1/8/2023
Hillsdale College's New Strategy in the School Wars Merges Curriculum and Privatization through "Choice"
by Megan Threlkeld
During the Progressive era, as today, American education reformers examined the connection between schooling and the cultural and political divisions affecting the nation. Today's conservative agenda, however, openly rejects the idea of public schools as a force for unity and democratic culture.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/3/2023
A Florida University is Assembling list of "CRT" Courses on DeSantis Request
by Emma Pettit
The governor appears to be trying to document the expenditure of state funds to implement any program, including academic instruction, reated to "Critical Race Theory" or "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" in the state.
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SOURCE: ProPublica
1/3/2023
Florida's Anti-CRT Law is Influencing Professors to Cancel Classes on Race
Faculty, particularly those without tenure protections, are deciding that the vague terms and harsh penalties in the state's new law make the risk of teaching about racism too high.
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