Category: Curriculum
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Reblogged from Jim Golden, an AP US History teacher: If you are confused as to why so many Americans are defending the confederate flag, monuments, and statues right now, I put together a quick Q&A, with questions from a hypothetical person with misconceptions and answers from my perspective as an AP U.S. History Teacher: Q:…
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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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You should know this is happening: Richard Corcoran, the Florida Dept of Education Commissioner, said he fired a teacher for #BlackLivesMatter Here is what the Florida Times-Union said about the situation A Duval County teacher who hung a Black Lives Matter flag in her classroom says she heard she was fired through a YouTube video. …
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President Trump is targeting the 1619 Project. Julian Zelizer writes that The New York Times’ 1619 Project attempts to bring the effects of slavery in American history. Instead of beginning the story of the country with the Revolution against the British Empire, the project pushes the timeline back to 1619, the year enslaved Africans were…
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After an extensive review, development and political process, Texas State Board of Education members Georgina Perez and Aicha Davis et al. have shepherded the first African American studies course to completion. Exclusive to Cloaking Inequity, I have obtained a draft of the new course that will receive a final vote today at the Texas State…
Cloaking Inequity 