Tag: Race/Ethnicity

• Debating statewide African American studies course LIVE in Texas

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  April 16, 2020

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  African Americans, Curriculum, Standards

  Watch the Texas State Board of Education debate about statewide African American studies course LIVE right now: http://adminmonitor.com/tx/tea/committee_of_the_full_board/20200416 Also see prior post Will Texas be the first for African American studies? Please Facebook Like, Tweet, etc below and/or reblog to share this discussion with others. Check out and follow my YouTube channel here. Twitter: @ProfessorJVH Click here for Vitae.

  

• “Illusion of Inclusion,” Article about Race and Standards in Harvard Educational Review

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  September 20, 2012

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  Accountability, African Americans, High-Stakes Testing, Latina/os, Standards

   In this article, Julian Vasquez Heilig, Keffrelyn Brown, and Anthony Brown offer findings from a close textual analysis of how the Texas social studies standards address race, racism, and communities of color. Using the lens of Critical Race Theory, the authors uncover the sometimes subtle ways that the standards can appear to adequately address race while…