The Culture War on Education

In The Thick

Futuro Media

Society, News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Politics, Culture

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🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Maria and Julio are joined by Reema Amin, reporter for Chalkbeat New York, and Antonia Hylton, correspondent for NBC News and co-host of the Southlake podcast, for a conversation about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted students. They also get into the conservative-led movement to ban books and bar classroom discussions around what they perceive as critical race theory.

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This report for Five Thirty Eight gets into how anti-critical race theory bills are impacting teachers across the country, including reprimands and firings.
For NBC News, Matt Lavietes and Elliott Ramos report on the record number of anti-LGBTQ bills that have been proposed at state legislatures just this year.

Photo credit: AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File

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0:37.1	So we're going to share a roundtable conversation that we recorded a little while back that's
0:42.1	all about education and how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our students.
0:48.4	So in this episode, we talk about the wave of book bans that we've been seeing across
0:53.0	the country.
0:54.0	Kind of ugly.
0:55.0	This manufactured debate around critical race theory, so a lot of stuff you need to know.
1:00.0	Also talking about the learning losses and the mental health of our students.
1:04.7	Right.
1:05.7	And we also get into how this issue played out in a school district in Texas where one
1:09.8	of our guests, Antonia Hilton, was reporting now when it comes to schools in Texas right
1:16.2	now, all eyes are on Uvalde and the tragic shooting that happened there last week.
1:21.1	Yes.
1:22.1	But these connections are all still at play, you know, in terms of how Republicans have
1:26.4	been using these issues from gun legislation to mask mandates to educating students about
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