Center for Educating Critically
Who Gets to Be in the Story?
Literature has always enabled readers to dive into storytelling and imagination, and it also enables them to learn more about history, cultures, and ideas. But in the last 10 years, increasing numbers of books are being challenged or banned—almost 23,000 in the US between 2021 and 2025. Many of these are children’s literature that reflect differences […]
Brown v Board of Education: “We Need Another Moment for Our Time”
Seventy years ago, on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, which outlawed racial segregation in public schools. Acknowledging that the previous “separate but equal” doctrine was inherently unequal, Brown v. Board laid the groundwork for students of all races to learn alongside each other […]
4 Ways Educators Can Be More Inclusive
There have long been tensions between well-intentioned teaching and the unintentional replication of oppressive practices in education, like privileging communication styles typical of the white upper-middle class or inadvertently retraumatizing students of color when discussing racist violence. But while many anti-oppression researchers and advocates have focused on specific forms of oppression like racism or ableism, […]