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critical race theory

  • SOURCE: The Nation
    9/22/2021

    Debate and Controversy are Essential to History Education

    by Robert Cohen and Sonia Murrow

    Claims that critical perspectives on US history are "divisive" or "disruptive" or teach students to "hate America" were wrong in the 1980s, and are being repeated today. Educators must be free to serve the needs of students to compare, evaluate and debate. 

  • SOURCE: The Bulwark
    9/9/2021

    The Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for Your Schools

    by Thomas Lecaque

    "Over the past year, as the conspiracy theorists have come together under one big apocalyptic tent we have seen organized campaigns of harassment, threats of violence, attempts to harm members of school administrations, and physical altercations at school board meetings when masks are mandated."

  • SOURCE: American Historical Association
    9/15/2021

    AHA and OAH Join Coalition to Protect Integrity of History Education

    by James Grossman and Beth English

    "Ongoing partisan agitation around this issue will continue, provoked and sustained by a shrewdly organized and amply funded crusade that seeks to replace evidence-based history instruction with a whitewashed version of patriotism."

  • SOURCE: The Guardian
    9/14/2021

    Black American Educators: New Laws Silence Us

    Historians of education and civil rights suggest that Black teachers may be justified in fearing that new content-based restrictions on teaching history may subject them to more disciplinary action than their white colleagues. 

  • SOURCE: Civil War Memory
    8/28/2021

    The Pledge Our Students Deserve

    by Kevin M. Levin

    A widely circulated pledge for history teachers is right to resist efforts by state lawmakers to dictate curriculum and suppress ideas, but wrong to commit teachers to "truth" as a set of conclusions instead of an honest, open practice of inquiry.

  • SOURCE: Charlotte News & Observer
    8/31/2021

    NC Teacher: Don't Give In to GOP Politics of Fear

    by Anne P. Beatty

    "To retreat from open, honest discussions about race and history is the last thing we should do. To retreat is to give into the fear mongering of this bill. Its goal is our silence."

  • SOURCE: Perspectives on History
    8/12/2021

    CRT Debate "Abstract and Uninformed," Says AHA President

    by Jacqueline Jones

    "CRT does not explain all of American history; rather, it provides insights into why achieving the ideals enshrined in the Founders’ declaration that “all men are created equal” has been so elusive over the centuries."

  • SOURCE: New York Times
    8/18/2021

    The School Culture Wars: ‘You Have Brought Division to Us’

    “Schools are particularly fraught spaces because they represent a potential challenge to the family and the authority of parents,” said Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, an associate professor of history at the New School in New York City.

  • SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
    8/13/2021

    "Be Paranoid": Will Administrators Back Faculty Teaching Controversial Topics?

    "Many faculty members across the country are concerned that in this politically polarized environment, some students or outside groups could come looking for trouble. The threat of students recording classroom conversations and posting snippets online out of context is not new, after all."

  • SOURCE: The Atlantic
    8/17/2021

    The First Casualty in the War on Critical Race Theory

    "I don’t ask the students to subscribe to any ideas. I don’t ask them to base their opinions on materials that we read. I just ask that they critically evaluate it and understand it. We evaluate claims. That’s all that we do." 

  • SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
    8/16/2021

    Win for Academic Freedom in Nebraska

    "Jeannette Eileen Jones, associate professor of history and ethnic studies at the flagship Lincoln campus, said it's "disingenuous" to paint discussions involving critical race theory or race in general as divisive or anti-American."

  • SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
    8/11/2021

    Hourlong Wisconsin Legislative Debate over "Critical Race Theory" and Teaching History

    "Teachers do not deliberately set out to make students feel bad about themselves. The problem this bill seems to identify, that Wisconsin's teachers intentionally or otherwise want to make students feel bad, is simply not real," said Jeremy Stoddard, a University of Wisconsin-Madison curriculum and instruction professor.

  • SOURCE: Perspectives on History
    8/11/2021

    The Culture Wars – They're Back

    by Laura Ansley

    Texas historian Trinidad Gonzales discusses the local and national context of the state's efforts to ban the teaching of divisive concepts.