teaching history

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  10/20/2021
  

  State Laws Mandating "Opposing Viewpoints" Corrupt the Teaching of History

  by Jacqueline Jones and James Grossman

  "The vague wording of SB3 not only creates absurd situations that require teachers to figure out how to offer “opposing viewpoints” on slavery, but also gives license to parents and administrators looking to challenge the teaching of incontrovertible facts relating to controversial issues."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/19/2021
  

  Leonard Moore: On Teaching Black History to White People

  Dr. Leonard Moore of the University of Texas, author of the new "Teaching Black History to White People," discusses the challenges of teaching about racism in America, both from conservatives who often demand "colorblindness" and elements of the "woke left" who often demand intellectual safety.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  10/19/2021
  

  Oklahoma ACLU Files Suit Against State Ban on Critical Race Theory

  "The lawsuit says the law is unconstitutional as it goes against the First and 14th Amendments and asks the court for a permanent preliminary injunction to prevent the law from being enforced in schools and universities."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/19/2021
  

  Must We Unite Around Slaveholders? Woody Holton and Jamelle Bouie on the Politics of History

  "So the big difference between the generation that I’m a part of and the generation that came before is that where they saw consensus internally, we see conflict internally. And by the way, I think that’s a lot more exciting."

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• SOURCE: Blue Book Diaries
  10/14/2021
  

  A Texas Administrator Didn't "Both Sides" the Holocaust; She Acknowledged the Legal Jeopardy Facing Teachers Under a Bad Law

  by Jonathan Wilson

  Texas's new curriculum law opens the door to politically-driven attacks on teachers from any number of political positions; a curriculum director's recorded advice to teachers shouldn't be shocking because it reflects this reality. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/15/2021
  

  Books Briefing: Fights Over What Kids Read Continue

  More than half of the books banned from or challenged in school libraries and classrooms deal with issues of diversity including race, gender and disability. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  10/14/2021
  

  Texas School Administrator Uses Holocaust as Example of Including "Opposing" Views

  The advice illustrates the predicament of Texas teachers, who are concerned about being punished over any possible political objection to the content of their teaching or the books in their classrooms. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  10/14/2021
  

  Critical Race Fury: The School Board Wars Are Getting Nasty in Texas

  "The threat the loud and the angry pose isn’t necessarily that they win outright but that they tire others out—that they make public service too burdensome, too painful, too tedious."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/11/2021
  

  Canada is Going through its Own History Wars

  by Ian Rocksborough-Smith

  "To what degree will well-established professional historians and scholars respond and engage with younger generations of activists, intellectuals and cultural workers adamant about centring the experiences of marginalized people?"

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/11/2021
  

  Columbus Day was a Battle in the 90's History Wars, Too

  by Cynthia C. Prescott

  "The History Wars of the 1990s can show us that compromise and accommodation can temporarily defuse controversy — but tempt us to postpone the harder work of seeking justice and truth."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/8/2021
  

  School Board Meetings Get Wild

  Historian Adam Laats suggests that school board meetings are an accessible venue for conservative anger in the ongoing culture wars, but also help connect conservative think tanks to the grass roots. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/1/2021
  

  Teaching the Good and Bad of History Empowers Students to Build Just Communities

  by Mirelsie Velázquez

  Oklahoma's new law restricting teaching about past racial atrocities will make it hard to teach about how Black and Native Oklahomans have responded to discrimination and fought for racial justice. 

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• SOURCE: Nashville Tennessean
  10/5/2021
  

  The "Critical Race Theory" Ban Makes Teaching Black History Illegal in Tennessee

  by David Barber

  "The real object here is to prevent educators from discussing nearly four centuries of white domination over Black people.­­"

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/30/2021
  

  Misappropriating MLK in the Critical Race Theory Debate

  by Tyler D. Parry

  Selective readings of Martin Luther King's writing and speeches swap his radical critiques of capitalism, militarism and inequality for bland colorblindness. The fact is that "CRT" is deeply rooted in King's work, which was unpopular among white Americans in his own time. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/3/2021
  

  Johns Hopkins Prez: Universities Failing Responsibility to Democracy

  by Ronald J. Daniels

  Today's universities need to break from a historical cycle of attention and indifference to matters of civic education. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Observer
  9/28/2021
  

  Prof. Leonard N. Moore on Teaching Black History to White People

  Professor Leonard Moore's new book insists that white people who hope to know more about Black history should begin by understanding more about the challenges faced by Black historians. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/29/2021
  

  Violence Over Schools is Nothing New

  by Sherman Dorn

  "The history of education teaches us that violence surrounding democratic schooling is part of a recurring pattern and that we have a choice to passively accept or assertively confront violent impulses."

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• SOURCE: The American Prospect
  9/28/2021
  

  Randall Kennedy on the "Right-Wing Attack on Racial Justice Talk"

  "The history of American education at every level is full of examples of textbooks blocked, library books pulled, and instructors fired on account of right-wing objections to teachings about racial injustice."

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  9/27/2021
  

  Conservatives: If You Don't Want Critical Race Theory in Classrooms, Provide the Resources for Civics Education

  by by Thomas Kelly, David Bobb, and Jeffrey Sikkenga

  Our three organizations launched the American Civics and History Initiative, a collaborative effort that provides thousands of teachers with learning opportunities they may have missed in college or graduate school.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  9/19/2021
  

  Teach the Truth About America's Less Than Glorious History

  by Richard T. Hughes

  "Not a single student in my class professed to know anything at all about this tragic chapter in our nation’s history. I shouldn’t have been surprised. We witness every day similar ignorance, coupled with a persistent reluctance to acknowledge our nation’s crimes."