The backlash against what Robert L. Woodson calls the "race-grievance industry" is surging, and leading the revolt are right-tilting Black intellectuals like himself. On the heels of 1776 Unites, the Woodson Center's response to the 1619 Project,.
“There’s a real thirst for authentic American history and a real desire to push back against this race-grievance onslaught,” said Mr. Woodson, the book’s editor. “Every day we get requests from groups, even some corporations, that want an alternative to the race-grievance narrative. The very fact that the book is selling so aggressively in fact, Amazon sold out and had to get resupplied.”
The authors of the book’s 28 essays include: John Sibley Butler, Jason D. Hill, Coleman Cruz Hughes, Charles Love, John McWhorter, Dean Nelson, Clarence Page, Wilfred Reilly, Ian Rowe, Shelby Steele and Carol M. Swain.
Column: Social activism is replacing genuine teaching
Modified: 5/15/2021 10:20:11 PM In her recent op-ed column (“Reset the conversation about ‘divisive concepts,’ ” May 7), Carolyn Dever dismisses as a “sign of the times” all concerns about young students in Hanover being taught critical race theory and the widely repudiated 1619 Project. Unfortunately, because of a lack of transparency by School Administrative Unit 70, its statements and agendas, and its violations of New Hampshire’s Right to Know Law, there are serious and legitimate concerns.
The SAU’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee violated the state’s Right to Know law by holding closed meetings since at least spring of 2019. Meetings were not advertised or recorded, nor were minutes published. Attempts to attend a meeting were rebuffed, and efforts to join the committee were either rejected or ignored.
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Beyond the partisan sniping, the crux behind the war of words raging over Alberta’s new draft kindergarten to Grade 6 curriculum can be boiled down between the teaching of knowledge or the teaching of skills.
The draft curriculum wants to focus on teaching a knowledge-rich curriculum, and the loud critics of the proposed new curriculum are proponents of a skill-based curriculum.
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Beyond the partisan sniping, the crux behind the war of words raging over Alberta’s new draft kindergarten to Grade 6 curriculum can be boiled down between the teaching of knowledge or the teaching of skills.
The draft curriculum wants to focus on teaching a knowledge-rich curriculum, and the loud critics of the proposed new curriculum are proponents of a skill-based curriculum.
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Try refreshing your browser, or Corbella: Knowledge-based K-6 draft curriculum is best for our kids Back to video
I just got the book on Thursday and so have only read the first four chapters, but there are two classroom scenes that stand out and illustrate both approaches.