by Deborah Cadbury, the author of The School that Escaped the Nazis, to be published July 12 by Public Affairs Books
The heated debate today over whether “critical race theory” has a place in the American school curriculum highlights the battleground that education can become. CRT was developed over forty years ago by scholars as a way of gaining insight into how racism shapes American society and institutions; today ten American states have altered their legislation or taken measures to restrict its teaching, with many more states planning to follow suit. FOR MORE
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