Alabama education officials face backlash over 'woke' training book.
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has replaced her director of early childhood education, Barbara Cooper, over the use of a teacher training book, written by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), that she denounced as teaching "woke concepts" because of language about inclusion and structural racism. The book is a guide for early childhood educators and is not a curriculum taught to children. The NAEYC did not address Ivey's statements but said the book is a research-based resource for educators. Alabama's First Class voluntary pre-kindergarten programs operate more than 1,400 classrooms across the state.
