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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

In 2021, a Bucks County venture capitalist and longtime Republican funder concerned about COVID closures donated half a million dollars to school board races around the state. Also in 2021 came Pennridge’s first serious battles over diversity programs. Then there was the curriculum.

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Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies?

The Hechinger Report

As Chris Tims, a high school teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, sees it, history education is about teaching students to synthesize diverse perspectives on the nation’s complicated past. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. The insurrection has led to increased support for history and civics education.