teaching history

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/20/2021
  

  Critical Race Theory Bans Could Make Best Teaching Practices Illegal

  by Rosalie Metro

  By silencing discussion of systemic racism in classrooms, state laws encourage the interpretation of racial inequality as a product of inherent inequality among people, reinforcing racist stereotypes. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/19/2021
  

  Texas Senate Declares War on History

  by Julian Zelizer

  "Though much of the debate is being framed as being about "Critical Race Theory" -- a term that is politically useful since most Americans have no idea what it means -- it's really about teaching the history of race relations and civil rights."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/18/2021
  

  ‘Historical Distortions’ Test South Korea’s Commitment to Free Speech

  The South Korean government's efforts to police discussion of historical events, aimed at suppressing right-wing theories about the country's democratization movement, are an exceptional example of the tension between allowing free debate and the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/13/2021
  

  'The Myth Itself Becomes a Stand-in.' What Can the Alamo's History Teach Us About Teaching History?

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Historian Raúl A. Ramos discusses the way that the myth of the Alamo has supplanted the real history, and how new state laws stand in the way of the teaching that a multiethnic Texas needs. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/9/2021
  

  There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  "Republican operatives... are effectively debating themselves. They have conjured an imagined monster to scare the American people and project themselves as the nation’s defenders from that fictional monster."

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  7/15/2021
  

  The Moral Panic Over Critical Race Theory Is Coming for a North Carolina Teacher of the Year

  Rodney Pierce won honors for going beyond a teach-the-test approach to middle school social studies by pushing his students to understand the history of their local community, including racism. He fears making white parents uncomfortable may jeopardize his job.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  7/14/2021
  

  Culture War in the Classroom: Time for Educators to Go on the Offensive

  by Leo Casey

  Educators need to fight back aggressively against the CRT panic, which is a right-wing effort to limit teaching and learning about racism in K-12 schools. A civics educator and teacher advocate explains how. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/12/2021
  

  New Survey Shows What Parts Of U.S. History Kids Across America Are Actually Learning

  Hasan Kwame Jeffries: "If you don't teach about race and racism in American history, past and present, I don't know what the hell you're teaching. It's not the truth."

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• SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
  7/12/2021
  

  First It Was Sex Ed. Now It’s Critical Race Theory

  Republican attacks on cultural issues within America’s public schools follow a familiar pattern.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/13/2021
  

  Douthat: The War that Made Our World

  Columnist Ross Douthat argues that greater attention to the French and Indian War can support a view of history that embraces the complexity of the past without falling into simplistic patriotism or cynicism. 

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• SOURCE: WQCS (NPR)
  7/11/2021
  

  Texas Lawmakers Take Aim At Critical Race Theory

  "Democratic Senator Nathan Johnson says since critical race theory isn't actually taught in Texas public schools, the push for bills opposing it is all politics."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/7/2021
  

  Critical Race Theory is Just the New Buzzword in Conservatives’ War on Campuses

  by Lauren Lassabe

  "When understood in this historical context, it becomes clear that complaints about critical race theory are not genuine objections to one type of idea or teaching. Instead, this grievance is part of a far longer and larger campaign to reshape campuses by elevating conservative views and quashing liberal ones."

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• SOURCE: Financial Times
  7/7/2021
  

  America’s History Wars, Race, and the Flag

  by Simon Schama

  "The jarring discrepancy between the “self-evident” truth of human equality asserted in the Declaration of Independence and the brutal reality of America’s founding being built on the backs of the enslaved is not, then, some contemporary piety of the 'woke'."

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• SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  7/7/2021
  

  When Holocaust Education Meets Critical Race Theory: A Partisan History Debate Unfolds In Louisiana

  The bill, which died in the Senate, appeared to be motivated by the desire to equate the plight of conservative Louisianans, allegedly beseiged by "critical race theory," with that of European Jews during the ascendancy of Nazism. 

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  7/8/2021
  

  AHA Issues Statement on Threats to Historical Integrity in Texas (July 2021)

  "The American Historical Association views with alarm several provisions in Texas House Bill 3979 (An Act Relating to the Social Studies Curriculum in Public Schools), recently signed into law by Governor Abbott."

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  7/5/2021
  

  To Understand the History Wars, Follow the Paper Trail

  by James Grossman and Jeremy C. Young

  "This is the legislative equivalent of push-polling — creating division where none exists, raising fears about something that isn’t even happening to score political points."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7/1/2021
  

  The ACLU on Fighting Critical Race Theory Bans: ‘It’s About Our Country Reckoning with Racism’

  Historian Adam Laats give background to an interview with ACLU Staff Attorney Emerson Sykes about the climate of backlash and censorship around teaching the history of racism in America, comparing it to the 1920s uproar over the teaching of evolution. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/28/2021
  

  The Republican Plot to Ban LGBTQ History in Public Schools

  So-called "Don't Say Gay" laws seek to restrict the teaching of LGBTQ history in schools or allow students to opt out of individual lessons. Historians Anthony Mora, Marc Stein and Charles Kaiser discuss the politics of moral panic.

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• 7/4/2021
  

  Let's Think about "Thinking" Before We Teach "Critical Thinking"

  by Elizabeth Stice

  The liberal arts have long claimed their value lies in teaching the skill of critical thinking. History teachers can be more effective if they give some thought to thinking, with insights from cognitive theory and behavioral psychology. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/26/2021
  

  Ross Douthat: What Progressives Want, and What Conservatives Are Fighting

  Times columnist Ross Douthat looks at the latest battle in the history curriculum wars and concludes that progressive efforts to tell hidden stories about the American past have bled into efforts to craft radical narratives that the nation's founding is inherently corrupted by racism.