critical race theory 
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SOURCE: Politico
3/24/2023
Culture Warrior Chris Rufo is DeSantis's Most Important Ally
The closeness of the Florida governor's alliance with the fomer documentarian turned anti-CRT crusader shows DeSantis's commitment to claiming a position on the right of the culture wars. Who is setting the agenda?
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SOURCE: NPR
3/18/2023
Florida Professor: I was Fired for Teaching about Racism
Although Palm Beach Atlantic University is a private and Christian institution, English instructor Sam Joeckel says that a parent's complaint to the administration that led to his firing goes hand in hand with the efforts of Ron DeSantis to attack higher education in Florida to advance his "anti-woke" crusade.
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SOURCE: Windsor Weekly
3/10/2023
Virginia School Board Declares there is "No Systemic Racism"
The sponsoring board member suggested that his election victory means that "parents get a voice in how and what their children are exposed to.” A local history teacher disagreed.
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3/14/2023
Statement by People for Black History at University of Tennessee-Martin
The leaders of a student movement to resist Tennessee's restrictions on course content charges that their university's faculty senate has failed to give their petition a hearing.
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SOURCE: New Statesman
3/4/2023
Why is the Right Obsessed with Gramsci?
by Alberto Toscano
A lack of familiarity with the actual writings of the Italian Marxist hasn't stopped the right, including Christopher Rufo and Nate Hochmann, from placing Antonio Gramsci at the center of a conspiracy theory about leftists seeking to conquer social institutions to undermine American society.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
3/4/2023
Kimberlé Crenshaw Speaks Out: Education Restrictions Tied to Resegregation
Professor Crenshaw warned that the College Board's decision to alter its African American studies course resembles the pattern of business collaborating with and profiting under white supremacy that prevailed in Jim Crow America.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/8/2023
DeSantis Wants Us to Ignore What Black Children in Florida Need
Historian Marvin Dunn's "Teach the Truth" tours show that Florida's history can't be taught without acknowledging white racism and terrorism.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
3/8/2023
Scholars and Activists Join Open Letter Condemning Political Intrusions on Scholarship and Teaching
An open letter by Black Studies scholars and activists asks why a right-wing political faction has been empowered to hijack the curriculum in Florida and at the College Board, concluding that, far from being "drained of meaning," purged concepts are threatening to entrenched power.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/8/2023
In Florida, the Question is WHOSE Parental Rights
Although right-leaning "parental rights" groups have been prominent advocates for state legislation affecting how schools handle race and gender issues, it's clear that those groups don't represent all parents in the state.
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SOURCE: The Forum
3/6/2023
Fear and Loathing in Florida
by Samuel Hoadley-Brill
"Much like 'voter fraud,' the term 'critical race theory' can mean whatever DeSantis needs it to mean to justify his anti-democratic agenda."
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
2/24/2023
The Bankrupt Vision of the College Board
by Annie Abrams
"We have endowed the College Board with the power to shape millions of minds with its profitable exams. In turn, it holds students hostage for college tuition, stifles teachers, and destroys space for debating difficult topics."
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SOURCE: WPSD
2/23/2023
UT-Martin Student Government Condemns Tennessee "CRT" Law
Members of the People for Black History group argued that uncomfortable aspects of the state's and nation's history can't be skipped over.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/22/2023
Ron DeSantis is Making History a Political Issue; What does His Book Say?
by David Waldstreicher
Nobody paid much attention to the Florida governor's 2011 book "Dreams from Our Founding Fathers." Maybe we should now—it spells out a justification for a deeply conservative view of the constitution that dismisses the significance of racism in the founding and in the doctrine of originalism.
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SOURCE: Matter of Fact
2/19/2023
Adam Laats Connects Current Course and Book Controversies to Past School Wars
The education historian joins Soledad O'Brien to discuss past controversies over how the past is taught.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
2/14/2023
Drop "Culture War" Description: Banning Books and Restricting Ideas is Fascism
by Jason Stanley
Conflicting cultural values are a normal part of democracy. What leaders like Ron DeSantis want is to make sure only one set of values has a place in the public square.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
2/15/2023
Democrats' Embrace of Education "Reform" Paved Way for DeSantis
by Nora De La Cour
Decades of stressing metrics, measurement and job-readiness has created a vacuum where a robust public discussion of the role of public schools in nurturing shared humanity should be. Conservatives are now eagerly filling this vacuum with privatization and "classical education" curricula.
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SOURCE: Popular Information
2/16/2023
College Board Has Scrubbed Website of Previous Statements of Independence from Florida Officials
by Judd Legum
After its communications with Florida officials in 2022 were revealed, the College Board removed statements from its website that claimed the company did not have such communication before making changes to the curriculum of its African American studies course.
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SOURCE: Slate
2/9/2023
Podcast: PEN's Jeremy Young Argues Restrictions Won't End with Florida
Jeremy Young of PEN America and Chyna-Lee Hunter, a Miami high school senior, discuss the chilling effect already spreading from Florida's decision to block the AP African American studies course.
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SOURCE: African American Policy Forum
2/12/2023
African American Policy Forum Announces #TruthBeTold Campaign
The AAPF is launching an interactive project to monitor efforts to ban books, censor classes, and punish teachers, and to offer reader the opportunity to share their valued experiences with antiracist education.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/14/2023
At Florida's Besieged New College, Apprehension and Resolve
Students fear disruption of an academic community that many find supportive, inspiring, and open—and gravely misunderstood by the Governor and his allies.
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