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.
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