critical race theory

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• SOURCE: Academe Blog
  12/5/2022
  

  Who Controls the Curriculum in Florida?

  by Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn

  A federal court's ruling that Florida can't enforce it's "Stop WOKE" Act is a win for academic freedom, but not a total victory. Faculty must reassert the prerogative of setting curricular guidelines against administrators who see their role as serving the state. 

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• SOURCE: The Progressive
  12/5/2022
  

  The Culture War on Public Education

  by Peter Greene

  The multifront culture war beseiging schools has one unifying principle: undermining trust in public schools so they can be privatized, without regard for the best interests of children. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  11/30/2022
  

  DeSantis-Backed School Boards Flex Power to Oust District Leaders

  "Both Sarasota and Brevard’s school boards put the superintendents on the chopping block the same day that new members endorsed by DeSantis and conservative organizations like Moms for Liberty were sworn into office."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/21/2022
  

  School Politics at the Center of DeSantis's Conservatism

  by Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

  Although contemporary conservatives tend to malign public schools and teachers, they are tapping into a long historical legacy in which widespread education was conditioned on the promise that schools would inculcate nationalism and the morality of conservative ruling elites. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/12/2022
  

  Virginia Proposes New Social Studies Standards; Experts Charge Political Motivation

  Educators argue that the proposed standards are politically motivated and slant instruction toward right-wing ideological positions. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/16/2022
  

  A New AP Course Advances the Teaching of Race in American History (While the Right Seeks to Restrict It)

  by Michelle A. Purdy

  "The nation’s public schools have long been caught in a tug of war over whether they should be used to conserve or disrupt existing social arrangements."

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• 11/13/2022
  

  "Divisive Concepts" Bans Will Undermine Teaching Some of the Values Conservatives Claim to Uphold

  by John Marot

  The story of Frederick Douglass, to single out one prominent abolitionist, is "divisive" in the sense that students engaging with it will find echoes of values claimed by both left and right. That's why this history must be taught. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/7/2022
  

  What Links COVID and Curriculum Conflicts in Schools?

  Education historians Jack Schneider and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explain why there's a significant overlap between parents, especially conservatives, who objected to pandemic school closures and those who are demanding more control over curriculum decisions. 

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• SOURCE: The Century Foundation
  11/4/2022
  

  The CRT Panic Isn't Over, It's Shifted Toward Charter Schools and Privatization

  After a few months in the spotlight, the movement of opposition to CRT has shifted toward the quieter work of promoting charter school networks that can use public funds to teach a whitewashed version of American history. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/3/2022
  

  Released Emails to Youngkin's Divisive Concepts Hotline Include Gripes about "Groomers," Masks, and... Beowulf?

  Critics have called the Virginia governor's hotline for reporting "divisive" concepts in the classroom as a vehicle for snitching and intimidation directed at teachers by the conservative parents who were active in Youngkin's political coalition. 

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• SOURCE: Banished (Substack)
  11/1/2022
  

  Will Florida's "Stop WOKE Act" Hold Up in Court? (Podcast)

  Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder discuss the implications of the Florida legislature's intervention into the teaching of history. 

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• SOURCE: The Ringer
  10/27/2022
  

  Kimberle Crenshaw on CRT and Acknowledging American History (Podcast)

  The noted legal scholar discusses Critical Race Theory, anti-intellectualism in politics, and new work in African American political studies with host Bakari Sellers. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/31/2022
  

  Is Moms For Liberty Out to Protect Kids or Scare Parents?

  Williamson County in suburban Nashville shows how the astroturf Mom's group erupted on the scene to challenge a popular and well-regarded social studies curriculum for elementary schools on the grounds that its civil rights lessons were "divisive." 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  10/26/2022
  

  Partisan Politics on a State Standards Revision

  by Stephen Jackson

  The South Dakota Department of Education discarded the recommendations of a work group of scholars, educators and elected officials in favor of a second group appointed by the governor, including political allies and an emeritus professor from Hillsdale College, seriously undermining rigor in the state social studies curriculum. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10/24/2022
  

  MAGA Mom Activists Heavily Represented on DeSantis Book Review Panel

  Both transparency and expertise seem to have been ignored in the selection of conservative activists to staff a Florida panel implementing new restrictions on school libraries and in-classroom reading materials. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10/16/2022
  

  Inside DeSantis's Efforts to Reshape Florida Universities

  Many conservative politicians have attacked universities to win votes. But close observers of higher ed in Florida say Governor Ron DeSantis is making real and consequential institutional changes that may establish more political control over colleges in the state. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/6/2022
  

  Religious Colleges on Front Lines of "Critical Race Theory" Battles

  An outcry by parents and alumni of Grove City College after a speaking inviation to historian Jemar Tisby, a critic of racism in American Christianity, exemplifies the pressures facing religious institiutions from conservative forces inside and outside. 

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• 10/2/2022
  

  What's Driving the Latest Texas History Wars?

  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.