Thursday, September 25, 2014

Denver Students Walk Out In Protest Of Conservative Takeover Of Curriculum

www.thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/09/24/3571362/student-protest-denver/
"Similar rhetoric is used to justify comparable school policies around the U.S. In 2010, Arizona passed a bill that banned ethnic studies and prevented teachers with thick accents from instructing students. More recently, South Carolina conservatives asked the College Board, which is responsible for Advanced Placement curricula, to exclude any material with a perceived ideological bias, such as lessons about evolution. Schools in Texas are trying to incorporate textbooks that distort climate science.
But students like the ones in Denver are pushing back on conservative or discriminatory education policies."