Posts Tagged ‘curriculum’

Making sense of Florida’s nonsensical history curriculum

‘Slavery wasn’t so bad; white men are the real victims’: these are the messages that appear to stem from the right-wing war on history. It’s part of a bigger picture rooted in the politics of fear. Source

Florida Curriculum Author: Our Curriculum Reflects What Slaves Themselves Said, We’re Just Telling Their Stories

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Dr. William Allen — one of the authors of Florida’s social studies standards — fired back at criticism of one provision that instruction will include “how slaves developed skills which, Source

California Approves Math Curriculum Promoting “Social Justice” Over Standard Skills

The critics claim that the framework incorporates concepts of social justice, political activism, and environmental justice into the math curriculum Source

Dr. Eric Karlstrom, Emeritus Professor of Geography (Bio and Curriculum Vitae)

DR. ERIC T. KARLSTROM, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF GEOGRAPHY, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, STANISLAUS Eric Karlstrom began teaching at California State University, Stanislaus in 1990, after five years as an Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University, one year as a Visiting Professor at The University of Kansas, and one year as an Adjunct Professor at the University […]

Is the right wing ‘whitewashing’ the history curriculum taught in public schools?

This article was produced by Our Schools. Sandra Jones served as an investigative reporter for nearly two decades. She has received numerous awards for her broadcast reporting. “People still want to hide the truth about Black history,” Dione Archer, a resident of Richmond, Virginia, said in an interview with Our Schools. Her response came after […]

‘Message of Jewish supremacy’ dominates new Israel civic curriculum

The "message of Jewish supremacy" dominates Israel's proposed civic curriculum, sources in the Education Ministry are reported saying. The curriculum was formulated over the past year by five members of the curriculum committee. All are Jews and three are said to be religiously observant. The curriculum is expected to serve as a basis for a […]

Strike in Al-Quds schools in protest of imposing Israeli curriculum

19 Sep 2022 19:20  Source: Agencies A comprehensive strike in all schools in the eastern part of occupied Al-Quds By Al Mayadeen English  Palestinian national and Islamic forces and parents’ committees renew Al-Quds residents’ complete rejection of attempts to impose an Israeli curriculum in all schools. All schools in the eastern part of occupied Al-Quds witnessed Monday a […]

Palestinian students launch strike to protest Israeli curriculum in classrooms

Palestinian students in occupied East Jerusalem launched a full-day strike from school yesterday to protest the forceful imposition of the Israeli curriculum in their schools by the Israeli occupation’s Ministry of Education. The strike was called for by the Parents’ Committee Union in a joint press release on Sunday and supported by all Palestinian factions […]

Palestinian students launch strike to protest Israeli curriculum in classrooms

Palestinian students in occupied East Jerusalem launched a full-day strike from school yesterday to protest the forceful imposition of the Israeli curriculum in their schools by the Israeli occupation’s Ministry of Education. The strike was called for by the Parents’ Committee Union in a joint press release on Sunday and supported by all Palestinian factions […]

Palestinian students launch strike to protest Israeli curriculum in classrooms

Palestinian students in occupied East Jerusalem launched a full-day strike from school yesterday to protest the forceful imposition of the Israeli curriculum in their schools by the Israeli occupation’s Ministry of Education. The strike was called for by the Parents’ Committee Union in a joint press release on Sunday and supported by all Palestinian factions […]

Palestinian students launch strike to protest Israeli curriculum in classrooms

Palestinian students in occupied East Jerusalem launched a full-day strike from school yesterday to protest the forceful imposition of the Israeli curriculum in their schools by the Israeli occupation’s Ministry of Education. The strike was called for by the Parents’ Committee Union in a joint press release on Sunday and supported by all Palestinian factions […]

California School District Curriculum Claims There Are Eight Genders

School children in California are being taught that there are not just two genders, but that there are actually eight or nine! According to a report by Fox News a school textbook titled “Comprehensive Health […] The post California School District Curriculum Claims There Are Eight Genders appeared first on News Punch.

Occupied Donetsk prepares for new school year with Kremlin curriculum

American politician Wilma Mankiller once said, “whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.”  And the Kremlin is applying that philosophy as hundreds of children are making their way back to the classroom. Schools and teachers in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region are preparing for the new school year under a Russian curriculum and […]

Institute for Curriculum Services: How an Israel Lobby Group Infiltrated US Education

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA  — In 2018, the Virginia Coalition for Human Rights (VCHR) successfully stopped the state from adopting textbook edits made by the Institute for Curriculum Services (ICS), a pro-Israel “educational” institution. The ICS promotes itself as improving the accuracy of K-12 instruction on Judaism and Jewish history in the United States. Yet, backed by the […]

Poll: 70% of Virginia Democrats Want School Boards in Control of Curriculum, Not Parents

Seventy percent of Democrats in Virginia want school boards to have more of an influence on a school’s curriculum than parents, whereas 79 percent of Republicans and 57 percent of independents want more parental influence, according to a poll released Tuesday. A recent poll of Virginians from Suffolk University/USA Today asked if parents or school boards should have […]

Public School Curriculum Asks Kids to Pretend They Are Gay, Role-Play Plan to Have Sex: Graphic Content Warning

The public school system isn’t just failing — it has become near irredeemably corrupt. This is especially the case at Minnesota’s Richfield Public Schools district, where one program being used by the school district reportedly directs school children to role-play as gay and transgender children. During the curriculum’s role-play, the students are then asked to […]

California Approves Ethnic Studies Curriculum That Encourages a ‘Countergenocide’ Against Whites

The California Board of Education has unanimously approved a new ethnic studies school curriculum that has students “chant to the Aztec god of human sacrifice” and encourages a “countergenocide” against White Christians. The newly-approved California school curriculum encourages a countergenocide against whites, and urges students to chant to the Aztec god of human sacrifice, asking […]

Controversial California ethnic studies curriculum passes unanimously

After years of contention and revisions, California’s State Board of Education approved a curriculum meant to guide the state’s schools in teaching ethnic studies, an effort that sparked waves of criticism from Jewish groups. The Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum aims to teach students about the histories, experiences, contributions and struggles of minority groups in the […]

California has adopted an ethnic studies curriculum, but Palestine has been scrubbed out of it

California has become the first state in the country to adopt an ethnic studies curriculum for its high schools, but the history of Palestine has been scrubbed from the educational program. On Thursday, California State Board of Education voted unanimously to approve the curriculum. “We are reminded daily that racism is not only a legacy […]

CA State Board of Education Approves Ethnic Studies Curriculum

The California State Board of Education unanimously approved the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) on March 18. According to Gabe Stutman, editor of the Jewish News of Northern California, the final draft “includes two lessons on Jewish Americans and part of the [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance] definition of antisemitism (not the Israel part).” He also […]

Why California’s Model Curriculum Fails Jews, and Jewish Students

California’s Board of Education was praised for rejecting a controversial ethnic studies curriculum. Photo: Reuters. California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) is currently on its fourth draft, partially a result of its original antisemitic references, which were removed after Jewish organizations intervened. The curriculum, which will be taught as a graduation requirement, is now close […]

California’s Proposed ‘Ethnic Studies’ Curriculum Urges Students to Chant to Aztec Deity of Human Sacrifice and Cannibalism – Calls For ‘Counter-Genocide’ Against White Christians

Christian prayer in public school is prohibited, but now the Marxists in California are trying to force millions of students to chant to the Aztec gods of human sacrifice and cannibalism. California’s proposed “ethnic studies” curriculum calls for the “decolonization” of American society and a “counter-genocide” against white Christians. Image source The curriculum would also […]

A Call Not to Ratify California’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum

California’s Board of Education was praised for rejecting a controversial ethnic studies curriculum. Photo: Reuters. JNS.org – In an effort to create a more culturally relevant curriculum that encourages students to feel “more personally empowered,” the State of California’s Department of Education has been mandated with adopting an Ethnic Studies Curriculum. However, despite two revisions […]

Jesse Gabriel Provides Update on Ethnic Studies Curriculum

California State Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, a Democrat, provided the Jewish community with an update on the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) during a February 24 webinar. Speaking with Tye Gregory, executive director of the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), Gabriel began the webinar by stating that a recent article in Tablet about the […]

It’s Not Too Late to Protest California’s Flawed Ethnic Studies Curriculum

In August 2020, after a spring and summer filled with anti-Semitic attacks from the far-right and the far-left on synagogues, businesses, institutions, college campuses and against Jews across the United States, Brooke Goldstein, the founder and executive director of the Lawfare Project, published an article in Newsweek titled, “The Time is Now for a Jewish […]

The controversy over California’s ethnic studies curriculum, explained

 How and where do Jews fit into America’s minority communities? That’s the question at the center of a debate that has raged for more than a year over new school curriculum guides that are being adopted in California. Lawmakers there required the creation of an ethnic studies curriculum, and the effort to fulfill their mandate […]

On JPAC Advocacy for an Improved Ethnic Studies Curriculum

In recent days, several articles have appeared about the proposed Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum in California. Some include inaccuracies and misrepresentations of the plan’s current state and ignore the vital advocacy work that the Jewish Public Affairs Committee (JPAC), the largest single-state alliance of Jewish organizations in the United States, and others accomplished during the […]

Jews Have Until Thursday to Influence Ethnic Studies Curriculum

A proposed, state-wide, mandatory Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum in California is open for public comment only until Thursday, January 21. The current draft of the curriculum celebrates figures who have promoted anti-Semitism (including leaders of the Third World Liberation Front and the anti-Jewish leaders they admire); it uses racial distinctions to divide people into those […]

Cultural Marxism and the NZ Sex Education Curriculum

Sto Vounó Critical Theory is a play on semantics. The theory was simple: criticize every pillar of Western culture—family, democracy, common law, freedom of speech, and others. The hope was that these pillars would crumble under the pressure (Zero Hedge, ‘The Birth of Cultural Marxism’). Through all of human history societies have protected children.   […]

Israel drops satirical sketches from Bible curriculum over conservative pressure

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