Children across the country are returning to in-person learning, but another round of changing rules equates to anything but a strong start for students.
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After extensively reading about Critical Race Theory (CRT), including Dan Copp’s article and Kathleen Parker’s column in that same issue, it is easy to see why there is so much confusion around CRT. Perhaps then we need to look at CRT not for what so many think it is and is not, but as a lens, a tool, an opportunity.
My undergraduate major in college was history. Having taken nearly 20 courses in that subject area I now lump all of them into what I call traditional history instruction. Traditional history taught me, for example, that Texas fought Mexico for its independence. CRT enlightened me to the fact that because Mexico was heavily influenced by the Catholic Church, which had forbade slavery, Texas also fought Mexico to preserve slavery. The roles that women played in the two world wars as WACS and WAVES, for example, are indeed feel good patriotic traditional history. But it was CRT that informed me that these women were
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About: This is the home, studios and gardens of famed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The park’s trails and grounds are open year-round, dawn till dusk for hiking use. The Visitor Center is typically open daily from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Memorial Day weekend (late May) to Oct 31. Guided tours are offered during this time.
Did you know that Augustus Saint-Gaudens was the first sculptor to design an American coin? The $20 gold piece he designed in 1907 at the request of Theodore Roosevelt is known as a “Saint-Gaudens” by coin collectors.