Tag: Critical Race Theory
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In this episode of 8 Hands, a podcast focused on education for Black and Brown students and families, the fellas (Raymond Ankrum, Dr. Charles Cole, Sharif El-Mekki, and Chris Stewart) chop it up with Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig, Dean of the Education at the University of Kentucky about his take on the recent uptick in anti-CRT…
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African American Community Agenda Initiative (AAI), the Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Psi Boulé of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity co-hosted an AAI Virtual Summit on the attack on anti-racism initiatives, mainly through our education institution by mischaracterizing and rebranding a field of academic study referred to as Critical Race Theory (CRT). Watch the…
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Dr. Anthony Brown (University of Texas Austin), Dr. Greg Vincent (Executive Director of the NAACP Education and Civil Rights Initiative at the University of Kentucky) and I join Senator Gerald Neal to discuss the growing conversation about Critical Race Theory. What is it? Is it taught in our elementary schools? This is a very important…
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Before all the Critical Race Theory (CRT) state legislative filings, the NAACP Education and Civil Rights Initiative at the University of Kentucky College of Education held a webinar on CRT and Ethnic Studies back in April. The webinar featured appearances from Lynn, Matias, Vincent, Martinez and others… Check it out here: https://uky.zoom.us/rec/share/-KjTb0W1NqRzAqS1ZZYqDhZB1YapI-P02rxege7ufcGUeGRTxLUG_4ftyP8MOFK0.MnEwPUN5hzducxOz Wouldn’t it be…
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A primarily White organization for decades, Teach For America has recently sought recruit people of color into their 2-year “leadership program.” Notice, I didn’t say new teacher program… see Teach For America: Now With Less Teaching. As a result, academics are starting to publish on TFA’s new recruiting approach. I am excited to announce that we have a…
Cloaking Inequity 