Civics Education 2: When the Curriculum is Against the Law

Civics 101

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Government, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Today is the second part in our series about the state of civic education in the US. We talk about how teachers choose what to teach, so-called "divisive concepts laws," and how we can approach disagreements without falling prey to "division actors." This episode features Louise Dube, Executive Director of iCivics and member of the Implementation Consortium at Educating for American Democracy Justin Reich, Director at MIT Teaching Systems Lab and host of the TeachLab podcast CherylAnne Amendola, Department Chair and teacher at Montclair Kimberly Academy and host of the podcast Teaching History Her Way Click here to see a map of all the states that have passed legislation limiting what teachers can say regarding race, sex, gender, etc. Click here to see the Interactive Roadmap by Educating for American Democracy. And while we're throwing out links, click here to support our show, it means the world to us. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The House of Representatives voted 65 to 32 to prohibit teachers from compelling students
0:10.9	to learn a list of 11 concepts that deal with race, sex, women, and women.
0:14.3	On a conservative uproar over a critical race theory, which isn't taught in elementary
0:18.6	or high school classrooms and still wouldn't.
0:20.9	Many students actually drove more than four hours from Savannah to speak out against a
0:26.2	divisive concepts bill that's moving through the legislature here, today they're saying
0:31.2	they're being silent.
0:33.2	You're listening to Civics 101, I'm Nick Kappa, DJ.
0:38.0	I'm Hannah McCarthy.
0:39.0	And this is part two in our two part series about civics and social studies education in
0:43.8	the U.S.
0:45.0	Part one for those who haven't listened was about the history of teaching history in the
0:49.2	U.S., the attempts and failures to establish a nationwide civics or social studies curriculum,
0:55.6	and the reasons why so few federal dollars go toward civics.
0:59.2	Today we are going to look at what's actually happening in classrooms through a teacher
1:04.2	who is also a department chair, so she is helping make those curricular decisions.
1:09.1	And we're also going to do a deep dive into so-called divisive concepts laws.
1:13.8	Okay, first, Nick.
1:16.7	In the last episode, you told us that by the end of this episode, you would have a better
1:21.4	understanding of how we are doing civics-wise.
1:26.0	Have you indeed come to a conclusion on the current state of civic education?
1:30.4	Sort of.
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