The battle over Ethnic Studies

This post summarizes the current policies about Ethnic Studies, how we got here, and the issues that school districts are grappling with.

The Ongoing Battle Over Ethnic Studies - The Atlantic

Ethnic-studies courses dispel myths, Brooks said, and build connections among students as opposed to divisions. ... This is very important because ...

The Fight for Ethnic Studies | Learning for Justice

Student strikers spent five months protesting and performing sit-ins to call attention to the misrepresentation and disregard of Black, Indigenous and people of ...

The Battle Over California's Ethnic Studies Curriculum | New Voices

San Francisco native, Naomi Friedland, is delighted to publish her first magazine article with New Voices magazine.

The Fight for Ethnic Studies Is a Fight for All Identities, Everywhere

The movement for ethnic studies is larger than a single concentration. It is about leveraging the influence of our institution to defy the ...

The Debate Over Ethnic Studies in California - The New York Times

But almost from the beginning of discussions over California's ethnic studies curriculum, Jewish groups in the state have raised concerns about ...

The Ongoing Battle Over Ethnic Studies

The transition [from middle school to high school] can be a difficult one for disadvantaged children. Taking ethnic studies not only ...

The Battle Over Ethnic Studies in California - Truthdig

Artists and poets are fighting to keep the Mexican-American experience in curricula across the state.

The fight for African American studies in schools isn't getting easier ...

Today, efforts to bring ethnic studies into schools are nearly as fraught as they were more than half a century ago, seen by critics as a form ...

The Fight for Ethnic Studies | Asian Americans | PBS LearningMedia

With the struggle for civil rights and the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, students were expressing an interest in classes that explored ...

Ethnic Studies - The Fight to Teach Our Stories | lesson plan ...

This lesson focuses on the birth of Ethnic Studies through the two longest student strikes in the country's history.

The battle for curriculum: arrested semantics and reconciling racism ...

Attacks on Ethnic Studies and CRT are about US political society preserving racial meaning in the US, by which safeguarding their entitled ...

Fight for Ethnic Studies Moves to K-12 Classrooms | Convergence

Ethnic Studies helps young people make connections between anti-Black racism and environmental crises, between ableism and mass incarceration, ...

The Ongoing Battle Over Ethnic Studies | Diverse

In Tucson, Arizona, Che Guevara posters and Paulo Freire's The Pedagogy of the Oppressed are the spark that set off a heated conflict over ...

What Arizona's 2010 Ban on Ethnic Studies Could Mean ... - Politico

As states across the country impose new rules on the teaching of history and race in schools, a messy, drawn-out battle over a Mexican ...

Californians Debate Controversial Ethnic Studies Curriculum

The state has not missed out on the debate over how to teach students about the complex roles of race and ethnicity in American history, however ...

Ethnic Studies Today: Battles and Possibilities - jstor

When California's Governor Gavin Newsom signed. AB 1460 into law on August 17, 2020, we cheered.1 As educators of color who teach in the California State ...

Fight over ethnic studies spreads as requirement in California looms

A new state law will require all high school students to take a semester-long course to graduate, starting with the class of 2030, but there is no mandatory ...

I'm Fighting for Ethnic Studies in My Community So My History Won't ...

The push for ethnic studies is an important fight because accurate, anti-racist, multicultural educational curricula are vital to creating a better, more just ...

Editorial | As battle over ethnic studies curriculum continues, new ...

"Ethnic studies courses, which will become a graduation requirement for high school seniors at the end of this decade, are the latest flash ...