New research shows college professors are facing more political pressure to stifle what they want to say.
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From educational gag orders to the decline of tenure-track positions, academic freedom in the United States has been worsening in recent years.
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Brooklyn rapper 6ix9ine’s lyrics were used against him during his criminal trial in 2019.
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A critical race theory scholar explains why it’s problematic to use rap lyrics as evidence of a crime, and what some lawmakers are doing to protect artistic expression.
A growing number of states have passed laws that restrict what teachers can teach about racism.
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A history scholar sees leeway and loopholes in a wave of new state laws that seek to control what teachers can say about racism in America’s past.
Test scores for history began their decline about a decade ago.
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A historian of education policy says the dramatic drop in history test scores among the nation’s eighth graders was a predictable result.
Bans on critical race theory target teachers and curriculums.
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A new database shows that efforts to ban critical race theory are pervasive throughout the United States.
Black students are underrepresented in Advanced Placement courses.
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A college readiness scholar says the new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies has been weakened by political pressure from the right.
Lawmakers have passed many laws that seek to control how teachers educate students about racism in the U.S.
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AP teachers could find themselves at odds with laws that restrict how they can teach about racism in America’s past.
A Texas law says slavery cannot be taught as part of the ‘true founding’ of the United States.
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Lawmakers are seeking to downplay the role that slavery played in the development of the United States, but history tells a different story.
Books are often targeted when they are sympathetic to the oppressed.
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A scholar of literature sees striking parallels between contemporary book bans in the US and those that took place in South Africa during apartheid.
In this photo from Aug. 20, 1922, Gene Kemp and Mary ‘Teddie’ Kemp, at left, are seen with two friends.
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If Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had his way, the state’s past of lynching Blacks would be taught as an exception rather than the rule. History tells a different story.
People protest critical race theory outside the offices of the New Mexico Public Education Department in November 2021.
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A vital step in achieving the kind of action and change that CRT proposes is for each of us to be intentional and steadfast in our convictions to dismantle racist and oppressive power structures.
At least seven states have banned the teaching of critical race theory.
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A scholar compares the debates over banning books in school today to a similar clash of ideas that took place during the Reagan era.
An even mix of proponents and opponents to teaching critical race theory attend a Placentia-Yorba Linda school board meeting in California.
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Critical race theory is often distorted by GOP politicians and pundits to stir up its Trump base. But CRT is needed more, not less, argues one legal scholar, to explain American racial disparities.
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‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ the best seller of the 19th century, is not a relic from the past. The complex Uncle Tom figure still has a hold over Black politics.