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Elections can be an opportunity to teach about civics, the electoral process, campaign politics, historical contexts, and current political affairs.

In 2011, she was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian honor in the United States.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin released an interim report Friday outlining steps his administration is taking to remove "inherently divisive concepts" in Virginia's public schools, part of his pledge to ban critical race theory.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin released an interim report Friday outlining steps his administration is taking to remove "inherently divisive concepts" in Virginia's public schools, part of his pledge to ban critical race theory.

Curtis Thompson

Slavery’s a sensitive subject, but so is the question of who gets to be an authority about language.

How the 'critical race theory' debate is crashing headlong into efforts to update social studies standards.

To have, you know -- we should definitely have more black and latino educators because that is what our country looks like, but i dont think you have to be black or latino in order to teach a more accurate history. the problem is that our teacher preparation programs are not equipping educators with the knowledge that they need to teach this history better. when you look at the survey by teaching tolerance, they found that about half or slightly more than half of american educators say they dont...

During a special episode of Meet the Press on Sunday titled “Schools, America, and Race”, 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones said, “I don't really understand this idea that parents should decide what's being taught.” Perhaps believing that the Sunday after Christmas would be a slow news day, moderator Chuck Todd dedicated the entire episode to the topic of race and education in America, essentially to dismiss opposition to Critical Race Theory.