Amid the long-running controversy over a California ethnic studies curriculum that in an early draft omitted Jews and criticized Israel, a newly released ethnic studies curriculum in Marin County takes a different approach, incorporating a healthy portion of its lessons to teaching about antisemitism, the Holocaust and Jewish emigration to the United States.
It will be finalized in time for the start of school in August and distributed to all four Marin high school districts, which will be able to decide independently how or whether to use it.
According to a copy of the draft dated June 14 and provided to J., the lessons on anti-Jewish hate are framed through the definitions of antisemitism provided by the Anti-Defamation League and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The 44-page curriculum devotes six pages to the topic in a section titled “Antisemitism and its Impact on Jewish Americans in the U.S.”
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April 29, 2021
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A few schools in some North Bay counties have been honored by the state. California Schools Superintendent Tony Thurmond announced yesterday that over 120 schools have been named as 2021 California Distinguished Schools. That includes Credo High School in Sonoma County and Tamaplais High School in Marin County. In total, 28 schools from greater Bay Area counties made the list.
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