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education1 year ago

"Challenges and Controversies Surrounding California's Ethnic Studies Initiative"

California aims to implement ethnic studies in all public high schools by 2025, but faces controversy over its treatment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The discipline, which focuses on Black Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans, has a leftist, activist spirit and includes the Palestinian experience of displacement. California's 700-page model curriculum captures much of this spirit but omits discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, instead emphasizing "multiple perspectives" on political issues.

via The New York Times|
#california#diversity#education
education2 years ago

"UC Riverside Professor's Resignation Amid Native American Identity Controversy"

Andrea Smith, a prominent ethnic studies professor at the University of California, Riverside, has agreed to retire next year following accusations that she falsely claimed to be Native American. The separation agreement allows her to keep her position until August 2024, teach classes until then, and retain retirement benefits, but she will not be listed in the university's directory as an emeritus professor. The agreement avoids an investigation into the faculty complaint and potential legal battles. While some Native scholars see this as a form of accountability, they lament that Smith did not acknowledge deception, and the university allowed her to evade a reckoning by not investigating the accusations.

via The New York Times|
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