Arkansas Times

Arkansas to inspect AP African American Studies lesson plans for evidence of critical race theory, indoctrination

Central High NAACP chapter President Madison Tucker speaks out in March 2023 against the Arkansas LEARNS bill. Credit: Brian Chilson UPDATED: To include a statement from the College Board. The six ...
Black Enterprise

Texas Law Firm Fights Back Against State Law Banning Critical Race Theory In Lesson Plans

Attorneys from Texas-based law firm Thompson & Horton LLP are helping educators contend with the state’s ban on the teaching of critical race theory in classrooms, Yahoo News reports. During the Texas ...
Education Week

Anti-Critical-Race-Theory Laws Are Slowing Down. Here Are 3 Things to Know

Is it the beginning of the end of “anti-critical race theory” legislation? Starting in 2021, state lawmakers introduced a wave of such proposals, many modeled off a 2020 executive order signed by then ...
The Nation

The Far Right’s Plan to Force Teachers to Lie About Race

Trump has threatened to defund schools that teach honestly about the history of racism, giving new momentum to the “uncritical race theory” movement. Great Oak High School students hold signs during a ...
The Conversation

Efforts to ban critical race theory have been put forth in all but one state – and many threaten schools with a loss of funds

Few topics in education have dominated the news over the past few years as much as efforts to ban critical race theory from the nation’s schools. The topic is so pervasive that researchers at the UCLA ...
Politifact

DeSantis says he removed critical race theory from K-12 schools, but districts say it wasn’t taught

Educators, school officials and several Florida public school districts said critical race theory never has been part of Florida’s K-12 curriculums. Florida has rejected prospective teaching materials ...
NOLA.com

In latest attack on ‘critical race theory,' Louisiana GOP tries to limit school lessons on racism

Louisiana public schools could be barred from teaching about systemic racism under a bill the state Senate passed Monday, the latest attempt by Republican lawmakers to restrict lessons on so-called ...
The Heritage Foundation

Michigan Schools Admit Pushing Critical Race Theory

State governments in places like Florida, Virginia, and Arkansas are leading the fight against the use of race and sex to divide the country. These are welcome steps. But on the other side of the ...
The Daily Signal

Critical Race Theory Is Still Plaguing Some K-12 Schools. Here’s How Parents, Lawmakers Can Fight Back.

Critical race theory gripped the nation’s attention after the summer of 2020 and the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. According to Google Trends, the search term peaked in June 2021, then ...
The Harvard Crimson

What Critical Race Theory Was — and is — at Harvard Law School

Former Harvard University President Derek C. Bok vividly recalls the day that he, then dean of Harvard Law School, flew to California to recruit Derrick A. Bell Jr. to the Law School’s faculty in 1969 ...