critical race theory

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• by John Willingham

  An organized and well-funded alliance of charter schools and conservative activists is leveraging the Critical Race Theory controversy in Texas to pursue the real prize: school education funding. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/20/2022
  

  Book Bans Reflect Outdated Views on How Children Read

  by Trisha Tucker

  Research shows that children are not vessels into which books pour ideas, but co-creators of meaning as they read and process a book. Yet today's moral panic imagines books breaking down barriers between innocent childhood and a corrupt world. 

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• SOURCE: True North Research
  9/14/2022
  

  Disinformation Groups are Taking Dark Money to Influence Schools – and Elections

  by Alyssa Bowen

  National conservative groups are using "dark money" organizations to fund a national campaign of complaint about gender and race in schools to try to create a wedge issue for the 2022 midterms and beyond, says a progressive watchdog organization. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  9/16/2022
  

  Partisan Attacks on Universities Show Administrators Need to Drop the Charade of Political Neutrality

  by Holden Thorp

  A veteral university administrator and scholarly journal editor says that the right is bound and determined to attack universities regardless of how much administrators proclaim their commitment to open debate. They need to embrace the role of truth-seeking instead. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/19/2022
  

  Parental Rights Crusades Often Conceal Other Motives

  by Edward Larson

  Public schools have always been about more than academics, so it's important to look carefully at the actions of any group claiming to represent the parents' role in education. 

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• SOURCE: Observer
  9/15/2022
  

  What "Parental Rights" Debates are Getting Wrong

  by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

  The success of the right-wing Moms For Liberty organization in raising fears of critical race theory and gender ideology obscure other historical models of parental activism; a cartoonish image of parents as reactionaries prevents dialogue that can get parents productively involved. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/12/2022
  

  Today's Book Bans Might be Most Dangerous Yet

  by Jonna Perrillo

  Today's book banners have broadened their attention from communist themes in textbooks and are attacking young adult literature titles that students are choosing to read, a much more significant intrusion on freedom of thought. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/13/2022
  

  Kimberle Crenshaw: Critical Race Theory a Vital Part of American Discourse

  NPR's A Martinez talks to Kimberle Crenshaw, who coined the term "critical race theory," about anti-racism and why she believes it must be part of American discourse.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/1/2022
  

  The Danger of Encouraging Americans to Inform on Each Other

  by Christine Adams

  Governors like Virginia's Glenn Youngkin are repeating a tactic of despots throughout history: encouraging the public to denounce individuals to the authorities. Whether its witches or teachers, this is a formula for intimidation and conformity. 

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• SOURCE: ACLU Florida
  8/18/2022
  

  ACLU, Educators and Students File to Block Florida's "Stop WOKE" Law

  " The bill specifically targets and places vague restrictions on educators’ ability to teach and discuss concepts pertaining to systemic inequalities, including the legacy of slavery in America, white privilege, and anti-racism."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/15/2022
  

  The Context of the New History Wars is Our Missing Sense of a Shared Past

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Grievances over secular issues like teaching racism have replaced Christian concerns over evolution and prayer in the battles over curriculum. Have advocates of progressive curricula opened the door to this attack by undermining a shared national historical narrative? 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/8/2022
  

  VA Governor Youngkin Faces Second Lawsuit over Tattle-On-A-Teacher Line

  A suit filed by American Oversight seeks information from the governor's office about how it has used information from a tip line set up to allow Virginians to report teachers who raised "divisive" concepts in their classes. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/9/2022
  

  Fighting Back Against Book Banners

  by Margaret Sullivan

  Attempts to ban books from public libraries are a threat to democratic culture and should alarm all Americans, argues Post columnist Margaret Sullivan. 

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• 8/7/2022
  

  Who's Afraid of Critical Race Theory?

  by Wallace Hettle

  An introduction to the core ideas of the Critical Race Theory movement and its founding thinkers suggests the right today isn't mad about ideas, but wants a new and scary-sounding term to justify their ongoing opposition to racial equality. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/30/2022
  

  Tulsa Schools Downgraded by State after Teacher Complains Implicit Bias Training "Shames" White People

  “In Tulsa, we are teaching our children an accurate — and at times painful, difficult, and uncomfortable — history about our shared human experience. We also teach in a beautifully diverse community and need our team to work together to be prepared to do that well,” reads a district statement on the decision. 

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• SOURCE: The Forum
  7/22/2022
  

  "They Want Your Children!": Right-Wing School Panics Seek to Repeal Modernity

  by Rick Perlstein

  "Reactionary panics about what children learn in school are about as old as time. And they won’t ever go away."

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• 7/22/2022
  

  The Republicans' Holocaust Problem

  by Steve Hochstadt

  "New Republican laws and their emboldened approach to white supremacy will inevitably lead to an attack on any Holocaust teaching which goes beyond the discussion of prejudice to analyze the power of embedded racism and Christian white supremacy."

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• SOURCE: The Forum
  7/18/2022
  

  Stuck on the Rufo Road

  by Jennifer Berkshire

  As conservative activists mount a multi-front campaign to discredit and defund public education, too many leading Democrats seem unaware that the popularity of public education means they have a winning issue right in front of their faces, says an education historian and policy analyst. 

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• SOURCE: The Root
  7/6/2022
  

  Academics Worry Florida's Academic Legislation is Coming to the Rest of the Nation

  Robert Cassanello is challenging Florida's "Stop WOKE" Act, contending it makes it illegal for him to teach his courses on civil rights history and Reconstruction. 

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• SOURCE: ProPublica
  6/29/2022
  

  The Other Cancel Culture: A University Administration Caves to a Conservative Crusade

  The Idaho Freedom Foundation has lobbied state legislators to use the leverage of the higher education budget to attack everything from diversity-related courses to affirmative action to an indigenous land acknowledgement in Boise State's virtual commencement.