SPLC Makes Doubtful Curriculum Claims

The Southern Poverty Law Center has released a new report, Teaching the Movement: The State of Civil Rights Education in the United States 2011, that claims that ” Across the country, state educational standards virtually ignore our civil rights history.”

The report reaches this claim by comparing ” state standards and curriculum frameworks” to “the generally accepted core knowledge about the movement.” But I think the comparison could have been more thorough.
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Reboot

Welcome to the latest version of my teaching website. These pages originally appeared on my personal domain: schrag.info. In the summer of 2010, I moved them to their own domain, using a WordPress installation on a shared hosting service. In March 2011, that site was hacked, and in trying to fix the damage, I broke WordPress. So I have now moved the site to WordPress.com, in the hopes that it will be more resistant to both hacking and to my own bumbling. As of this writing, I have not yet migrated all the pages, but I hope to complete that task soon. Wish me luck!

In addition to seeking greater reliability, I hope to do more blogging on this new site, covering ideas about the study and teaching of history.

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