Simply acknowledging and addressing racism is an important part of preparing students to understand U.S. history, and attacks on CRT are often part of larger conservative agendas that seek to ignore the impacts of systemic oppression.
are now attempting to pass bills that would prohibit teachers from teaching about the history of racism, sexism and other forms of oppression.
“It’s really an attack on the teaching of Black history, women’s history, and history around being impoverished in this country,”Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead, president of the National Women’s Studies Association. “They don’t want us to critically engage with anything that will challenge the current status quo.”
“Interestingly, if you start talking to families about what you’re teaching in the classroom without the label, if I tell a student that we’re teaching students to look at things through diverse lenses, to examine history through multiple viewpoints, to examine the institutions of governments to find out how different stakeholders are impacted differently by laws and access to laws, everyone’s in favor of that.
“COVID opened a door where we can be ripping apart the assumptions we made about what education has no choice but to be. COVID made us think outside the box and stop from shying away from innovations that for years we’ve been saying we can’t do.
“I think we need to do the transformative work, where you’re really bringing in other narratives, other histories into the class, and we need time to plan. We need real professional development time to help us find those golden nuggets and scholars, to help us widen and know where to go where to find them. We need to think about how we get the kids to think critically, because that critical thinking and analyzing sources can help them and bring news literacy.
standardized testing statistics from No Child Left Behind until now, and these gaps are not closing. We’re still testing but we haven’t even readjusted the standards from 2019, so we are comparing kids’ tests and their outcomes to what would have happened had they been in classrooms, had we not had to pivot and learn a whole new way to teach. So, that makes me crazy
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