Be part of the cutting edge community – gather from the convenience of your own home via zoom on the 4th Saturday of each month, January through October 2024, from 2pm-3pm for an enriching presentation and conversation about UGRR history and its contemporary relevance.

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Registration for a next day presentation closes at 5pm on the Friday before the presentation.

(May 25 at 2pm) CRT and the Battle Over Curriculum

Presented by Alan Singer, Director, Secondary Education Social Studies and Teaching Learning Technology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

As of April 2023, eighteen states banned the teaching of Critical Race Theory and what was described as “disruptive concepts” in K-12 classrooms, and in another nine states, legislatures were considering similar bans. In Florida, the “Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees” or Stop WOKE Act, prohibited public school teachers from introducing topics, books, and other material that might make a student or group of students feel guilty because of past or present behavior by people who were members of the race or ethnicity that they identified with. This could mean editing out of history any classroom discussion of slavery, racism, anti-Semitism, genocide, gender bias, and the treatment of indigenous people, immigrants, and religious minorities. Teaching about topics like slavery and the European Holocaust can be difficult because of the upsetting way people were abused and dehumanized, but slavery and the European Holocaust took place. That assertion is not controversial.

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