Though Judge Lee Rudofsky’s ruling was narrow, he said it “should give comfort to teachers across the state” that they won’t be broadly punished for the content of their lessons — even “critical race theory.”
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Judge hears arguments in lawsuit over LEARNS ban on ‘indoctrination,’ ‘critical race theory’
Section 16 “was written in such a vague, reckless way” that even the education secretary “cannot figure out what it means and how it has to be enforced,” a plaintiff’s attorney said.
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Lawsuit over state’s targeting of AP African American Studies adds 2nd teacher, NAACP as plaintiffs
LEARNS “dissuades prospective AP AAS students from registering because of perceived diminishment of the class and natural concerns about its uncertain future,” the complaint says.
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Dem-Gaz digs into state’s purge of school materials on race and civil rights
Are Arkansas social studies teachers actually referencing lists of materials from the state to guide their day-to-day lesson planning? Maybe not. But the chilling effect is real.
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School districts call state ed department’s bluff, keep AP African American Studies on the books
Arkansas school districts weren’t cowed by the state’s bungled last-minute attack on a new course focused on African American history and experiences.
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Arkansas education department cites ‘indoctrination’ as reason for dumping AP African American Studies
Teachers who offer an AP African American Studies course may be breaking the law, the state education department said. The department pulled the course from its recognized offerings the Friday before school was set to begin.
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Arkansas education department nixes AP African American Studies course at last minute
Documentation confirming the course would not be recognized by the state arrived roughly 48 hours before the first bell of the school year was set to ring.
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Historian hears echoes from the past in debate over what history to teach in schools
W.E.B. DuBois once wrote that nations “make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?” A number of people, including some state legislators, prefer to answer DuBois’s question with a resounding no. We’ve suffered this kind of propaganda before.
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Grif Stockley — lawyer and author of Arkansas’s racial history — dies at 78
An important historian of the dark racial history of Arkansas has died.
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Poll says: CRT was no election winner. Nationwide, voters generally wanted to protect public schools and the children in them
The war on public schools might not be as politically potent as Republicans think.