Race is a seminal aspect of the American experience, and bans on how it is taught can harm both students of color and their white classmates, professor Vida A. Robertson says.
One of the greater challenges to recruiting teachers is that traditional credential programs prepare teacher candidates for traditional classrooms—leaving innovative systems to fill the gap.
Administrators are trying to coax back students who either didn't log into online learning consistently or whose families remain concerned about COVID's risks.
"I will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa because it's against my religion," Loudoun County, Virginia, teacher Byron "Tanner" Cross said.
A new law in South Carolina allows the state education superintendent to fire the entire school board in districts where too many schools have been rated as "underperforming."
Showing students where and when American society has not lived up to the "all men are created equal" standard is a key driver of critical race theory, says one higher ed expert.
