Category: Education
Forida’s History Education Standards on Slavery Ignore Their Own Expert Reviewers
The Miami Herald has uncovered how Florida has tried to cover up the state’s treatment of Black people. Reporters Ana Ceballos and Alyssa Johnson say…
Ashburn Colored School A Jim Crow Era One Room School House for Blacks-Only
Several years ago while I was driving to Ball’s Bluff Battlefield in Northern Virginia I came upon this sign announcing that I was at the…
Learning for Justice Has Advice for Talking to Children About Slavery
Learning for Justice offers guidance for educating children about slavery. The guide begins by stressing the importance of slavery in creating modern racial dynamics in…
Teen Vogue: The Reconstruction Era Is Not Taught Well
Teen Vogue’s new article The Reconstruction Era Is Not Taught Well in US Schools — Here’s Why That Matters is out this week. Here is an…
Miami Closes Its AP African American Studies Course Right Before Start of Black History Month
Because of Florida’s rejection of the new Advanced Placement African American Studies course three weeks ago, Students in Miami in a pilot version of the…
The Roots of the Attack on the Teaching of Black History Date Back to the End of Reconstruction
The Washington Post has an article today on the similarities between today’s attack on the teaching of Black history and the suppression of the Black…
Florida Bans African American Studies AP Course from Its Public Schools
The State of Florida has barred the teaching of the new Advanced Placement African American studies course in the state’s public schools. According to the…
University of South Carolina Gets New Historical Marker on the College & Reconstruction
At the start of the Martin Luther King Day weekend, the University of South Carolina celebrated its brief period of racial integration during Reconstruction with…
Hillsdale College Professor Dismisses Teaching Black History as an Exercise of “Black Privilege”
Until 2016, not many Americans had heard of Hillsdale College. Over the last half-decade the school became famous when it became the leading institution pushing…
Eric Foner in NYRB Reviews New Book on How Race and Reconstruction Have Been Taught
The New York Review of Books has a review by Eric Foner of Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National…
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