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Supporters and protestors stand behind Ogden NAACP leader Betty Sawyer at a press conference on Critical Race Theory Wednesday.
Some educators in Utah are calling Critical Race Theory the latest “boogeyman” in public education.
It has become a loosely-defined, catch-all phrase some parents and state lawmakers have criticized as a threat to students across the state. The reaction is not unlike the one many people had to the introduction of
Common Core standards in the early 2010s.
Common Core was the
first major attempt to create a set of national school standards for K-12 students in language arts and mathematics. Before, states had their own standards, which varied by difficulty and expectation.