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Law 10.639, enacted in 2003, establishes anti-racist education in Brazil. It requires teaching history and Afro-Brazilian culture throughout primary education in all public and private schools. Racial literacy eventually exposes the racist mechanism embedded in culture and emphasizes how social and racial positions shape interpersonal relationships. Identitarianism studies are the basis for understanding Intersectionality Theory, which analyzes the social factors that shape a person's identity and their impact on access to rights and social relations. The anti-racism curriculum is integrated into the History, Art, and Literature courses, encouraging an interdisciplinary approach in other areas. The 2003 law also established National Black Lives Consciousness Day, celebrated in November 20th, in Zumbi dos Palmares honor, the Quilombo dos Palmares leader and an Afro-Brazilian resistance symbol. 🚩✊🏽⚒️📚🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈⚖️ #brazilholiday #blacklivesday ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #blackcounsciousnessdayinbrazil #blacklivesmatter #blacklivescounsciousnessday

Bill of Rights Day is just around the corner on Sunday, December 15! You can explore the Bill of Rights with your students using Teach Democracy's web page of Bill of Rights Day classroom materials, covering what these amendments have meant from 1791 when they were ratified to contemporary times. https://lnkd.in/gG68q_8p #BillOfRightsDay #BillofRights #TeachDemocracy #ClassroomResources #CivicEducation #AmericanHistory #CivicsEducation

On this #InternationalLiteracyDay not only do we need to celebrate #RubyBridges on what is also her birthday, we need to teach her story and read her work...and listen to her! “We’re still picking and choosing, and not judging each other by the content of our character," she said. "If we don’t stop that, we are going to lose this fight.” ~Ruby Bridges That "fight" is also very much about equity for every child. Literacy is a fundamental Civil Right. Without equitable access to high-quality evidence-based literacy programs, we are simply denying little ones the right to their best future. If we don't get this right, for every child, then nothing else is going to work-period. #CivilRights #EducationalEquity #LiteracyforAll #TheRighttoRead #LiteracyisaCivilRight

Curriculum matters! This is why there's been such an increase in attention to banning books and restricting what students can and cannot learn. I grew up learning the 10 Commandments - AT HOME! This judge's ruling is a win - for now. Rest assured, the group wanting the 10 Commandments in schools at scale will carefully review the ruling, regroup, and bring their case back. Here's what you can expect 1. more "groups" will pose ways to bring their version of Christianity into public schools; 2. increased banning of books, especially those focused on America's troubled history, the voices of Black people, immigration, and other marginalized groups; 3. increased restrictions on curricular content; 4. increased calls for "parents' rights," which will NOT include all parents; 5. increased calls for exclusionary discipline practices wrapped under the guise of school safety. In a world where curriculum has been, is, and will be under attack, having knowledge about how bias shapes educational content is critical. For the past few weeks, I've been sharing 7 forms of bias in educational materials. This week, it's all about imbalance and selectivity. Join me, this Thursday at 12 noon - live here on LinkedIn! #InstructionalPower #CurriculumMatters #DontBeSilent

A Florida school's request for permission slips to let students hear a reading from a Black author sparks controversy. The move aligns with Florida’s 2021 Parents’ Bill of Rights, causing confusion and backlash. Critics argue it reflects Governor DeSantis' push against "woke" education, limiting discussions on race and history. The state claims no permission is needed for Black history, dismissing the controversy as a media-driven lie. Amidst a broader education debate, the incident highlights tensions over parental involvement and curriculum restrictions. Let’s go! Agree or disagree with what we said? Please share your comments with us to continue the conversation or DM us on our socials. Stay informed with our newsletter, “The Informer”: https://lnkd.in/e_9F2s5s We appreciate it if you "Like" and comment to continue the conversation. Join our #community by subscribing to our YOUTUBE channel: @J-Washington, and hit that notification button! #Florida #flapol #vote #politicalinnovation #ParentalRights #EducationPolicy #FloridaSchools #BlackHistoryMonth #SchoolPermissionSlip #EducationControversy #EducationLaw #DeSantisEducationPolicy #CulturalLiteracy #FloridaEducation #ParentalInvolvement #EducationReform #StateEducation #WokeEducation #EducationReform #CriticalRaceTheory #DontSayGay #ClassroomDiscussion #PublicEducation #StudentPermission

This is an era of organized forgetting, manufactured ignorance, and a dangerous assault not just on history and remembrance, but on education itself — much of which in the U.S. is financed by “right-wing think tanks, including the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, and Citizens for Renewing America,” as Isaac Kamola points out. The teaching of history has been criminalized, and the truth of history has succumbed to the scourge of white supremacist falsehoods. History has been weaponized in the spirit of Trump’s claims to “Make America Great Again” and as such, has become a vital tool in the effort to reject historical memory and education as a source of public good. The suppression of history is a form of engineered thoughtlessness which condemns people to misery, takes away their sense of agency, undermines any sense of responsibility, eliminates plurality and an ability to think in the space of others. Organized forgetting is a crime against any sense of responsibility, if not the future itself, and creates what Naomi Klein calls “armies of locked-out people, whose services are no longer needed, whose lifestyles are written off as ‘backward,’ whose basic needs go unmet.” The Right’s Push to Whitewash History Is a Precursor to Fascism

Taylor Cassidy on the future of teaching Black history online with the limiting of diversity education in schools. Click the link in our bio to watch the full episode on YouTube and Spotify! #HowSheDidIt #BlackHistory #DigitalEducation #OnlineLearning #CulturalAdvocacy #TeachingHistory #MediaImpact #EducationalReform #InclusiveEducation #FutureOfLearning #HistoryInFocus #BlackWomen #College #DiversityinSchool

"Some minimize the foundational impact of #slavery in the United States, while others celebrate the architectural splendor of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation without mentioning that enslaved people built it. Similarly, a state-sanctioned 5th-grade textbook cites Abraham Lincoln’s “deep Christian faith” and credits #JimCrow laws with encouraging the development of numerous Black businesses...Others focus on #creationism. And still others ignore #climatechange, #environmentaldegradation and the many social movements that shaped the 20th and early 21st centuries...textbook companies have not publicly reacted to content shifts... #Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (#TEKS) standards ...mandated that social studies classes inform students that Moses and King Solomon inspired U.S. democracy; that segregated schools did not always lead to inferior instruction for Black children" #CengageLearning #HoughtonMifflinHarcourt #McGrawHill, #Pearson #Scholastic #SenateBill3 #1619Project #HB900 #BlueBonnetLearning https://lnkd.in/euFP-rkC

"Hardeep Dhillon’s first-year School of Arts & Sciences seminar, A History of America’s Children, focuses on the granular experiences of childhood in diverse communities and settings. Students can learn how to study history, from storybooks to Native American boarding schools. 'This seminar is really about introducing students to what history can be,' Dhillon says." -- Penn Today #KislakCenter #PennLibraries #HistoricalSocietyofPennsylvania https://lnkd.in/ekciU9r4

The Battle Over African-American History by James A. Bacon The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is working on revisions to an advanced-placement course on African-American history, and the forces of wokeness are agitating to preserve the ideological framework they wrote into the course description four years ago. In short, they seek to ensure that the full four centuries of the African-American experience in Virginia is interpreted through the prism of systemic racism. That’s not the spin on the story you’ll read in The Washington Post, of course. In an article published today the Post accuses the Youngkin administration of foisting its worldview on K-12 school students by, among other things, “striking some references to ‘white supremacy’ and ‘systemic racism.’” There was plenty of racism and oppression in Virginia’s past, to be sure, and the course doesn’t shy away from any of that, according to evidence in the Post’s own article. What’s at issue is the conceptual framework for thinking about race, slavery, Jim Crow, civil rights, and contemporary race relations. The wokesters, who approach history as the playing out of intersecting forms of oppression, aren’t content to have teachers present their ideology as one way to think about race relations. They want the course to reflect their viewpoint throughout. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gHBwwSpA