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Category : Education Reform
Steve Hinnefeld: “The 1619 Project” Affirms American Ideals
Now that so many Republican-controlled states are planning or hoping to ban the use of curriculum materials based on the New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize...
Denis Smith Warns West Virginia about Their New Charter Law: Expect a Train Wreck
Denis Smith went to graduate school in West Virginia and served as an elementary and middle school principal, director of curriculum, and director of federal...
Robert G. Parkinson: You Can’t Teach the Story of 1776 Without Discussing Race and Slavery
One of the hotly debated questions surrounding “The 1619 Project,” the New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of essays is whether race and slavery played...
Robin Lithgow: A Tribute to Drama Teachers
Robin Lithgow was in charge of arts in the public schools of Los Angeles. She writes frequently about the arts in schools. She writes: Pleased...
Valerie Strauss: Florida Cancels Local Control of Public Schools
Valerie Strauss wrote the following on her blog “The Answer Sheet” at the Washington Post: Here’s a very short quiz: The Hillsborough County School Board...
Jan Resseger: Ohio’s Education Budget Fracas
Jan Resseger writes here about the tussle in the legislature over the Ohio education budget. Funding was increased for public schools, but funding for charters...
John Thompson: The Anti-CRT Crusade and the Oklahoma City Bombing
John Thompson reports that the crusade against teaching racism critically is in full swing in Oklahoma. Rightwing legislators can’t seem to understand why it’s okay...
Historians and Other Scholars and Teachers Denounce Censorship in History Classes
The following statement was released by leading professional associations. The statement says: Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism and American History...
Timothy Snyder: The War on History is a War on Democracy
Timothy Snyder, an authority on totalitarianism, draws a straight line in this article that appeared in the New York Times from Stalin’s efforts to purge...