Right-Wing Legislators Are Trying to Stop Us from Teaching for Racial Justice. We Refuse.
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Right Wing Legislators Are Trying to Stop Us from Teaching for Racial Justice. We Refuse.
Lawmakers in a growing number of states are attempting to pass legislation that would require teachers to lie to students about the past and present.
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Rethinking Schools began in 1986, when a group of Milwaukee education activists — teachers, teacher educators, and community members — met to talk about how they could bring more critical voices into the conversation about public schools and libraries. These founding Rethinking Schools editors saw a school curriculum that was conservative, dumbed-down, and dominated by corporate-produced textbooks. Inappropriate standardized testing was rampant. Racial bias infected every level of schooling.