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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. Washington University in St.

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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

The school renamed a campus building Isaac Hawkins Hall after the first slave listed in the sale document. Jeffrey Jackson, a professor in the sociology department at Ole Miss, is a member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on History and Context, which spearheaded the creation of the plaques.

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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

That was apparent in January when the Board of Governors for Florida’s state university system, in approving regulations for the new anti-DEI law, also removed sociology from the list of courses that meet general education requirements. (On On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”)

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Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

With documentation and clear explanations, Muhammad challenged prevailing stereotypes about race and crime. requirements for the entire state system in Florida, because sociology apparently is radical Marxist teaching, because anything that focuses on inequalities is now being rendered a crime against the state of Florida.