California’s Board of Education Adopts Ethnic Studies Curriculum After Contentious Debate

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🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The California State Board of Education approved an ethnic studies curriculum for K-12 after years of tumultuous debate. Some critics say the curriculum falls short of the true intent of ethnic studies as an academic discipline. Meanwhile, other opponents of the early drafts of the curriculum were concerned about presenting students with too critical a view of capitalism and white supremacy. In the end, the board of education adopted the curriculum in a way that provides teachers and districts flexibility in how they will teach ethnic studies. We examine the guidelines and the pushback, and hear about a proposal to make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement in California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.9	Four years, four drafts, and 100,000 comments later, California State Board of Education
0:57.0	has approved what's considered the nation's first statewide ethnic studies curriculum for public schools.
1:04.0	Set in motion by a 2016 law, it now falls to teachers and districts to implement the optional curriculum that aims to teach
1:11.6	students about the struggles of marginalized groups and address racism. We look at the
1:16.9	new ethnic studies curriculum model and why it continues to draw pushback. That's next on
1:21.9	Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
1:39.3	Had an approval meeting this month for California's new statewide ethnic studies curriculum,
1:44.3	officials cited the killings in Georgia of mostly Asian women as the latest example,
1:49.7	as Board of Education President Linda Darling Hammond put it,
1:53.1	that racism is a clear and present danger, that education can help combat.
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