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Dawn Addis, Guest Commentary: Outline clear standards for California ethnic studies

Monterey Herald 30 Aug 2025
However, ethnic studies was initially introduced without statewide curriculum standards, leaving it open to broad and sometimes ahistorical interpretation ... But continuing ethnic studies without safeguards is absolutely not viable.
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Guest Commentary | The other antisemitism of Liberated Ethnic Studies

Santa Cruz Sentinel 27 Aug 2025
The fiercest opposition comes from the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council and other advocates of the “liberated” ethnic studies movement, a narrow, extremist variant of the discipline whose published ...
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The epicenter of the fight over ethnic studies

Cleveland Jewish News 22 Aug 2025
In practice, the “liberated” version dominating today’s classrooms pushes themes like white supremacy, privilege and resistance.The post The epicenter of the fight over ethnic studies appeared first on JNS.org ... .
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SFUSD settles on temporary ethnic-studies curriculum

San Francisco Examiner 08 Aug 2025
Approved textbook follows summer of controversy, criticism from some parents ....
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San Francisco school district board votes to buy ethnic studies curriculum

Cleveland Jewish News 05 Aug 2025
San Francisco Unified School District skipped “the transparent process required by law,” Marc Levine, of the ADL, told JNS.The post San Francisco school district board votes to buy ethnic studies curriculum appeared first on JNS.org ... .
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UCLA ethnic studies centers’ posters, bulletin boards targeted with vandalism

Daily Bruin 03 Aug 2025
The posters and bulletin boards outside UCLA’s ethnic studies centers have been the target of over a dozen vandalism incidents since April ... to silence the ethnic studies centers’ work.
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Ethnic studies under pressure in city that birthed the field

San Francisco Examiner 25 Jul 2025
Almost 60 years after bloody and brutal protests, activists from the Third World Liberation Front reflect on seeing the study in San Francisco ....
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Who's upset — and who isn't — over SF's ethnic studies program?

San Francisco Examiner 15 Jul 2025
Is there a lot of outrage and or a lot of loud outrage? Nobody knows for sure, but new data makes it clear where one key demographic stands ....
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Jewish groups, parents worry about San Francisco district’s new ethnic studies program

Cleveland Jewish News 09 Jul 2025
Marci Miller, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS that the curriculum was “unvetted” and “rushed.”The post Jewish groups, parents worry about San Francisco district’s new ethnic studies program appeared first on JNS.org ... .
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The United States of divergence: How ethnic studies became a fault line in American education

The Times of India 08 Jul 2025
Ethnic studies, in this light, isn’t just a curriculum, it’s a litmus test for whether democracy can survive disagreement in the classroom.A divided republic of knowledgeAs ethnic studies teeters ...
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SBOE Recap: Some Good News on Charter Schools, Ethnic Studies Elective (Texas American Federation of Teachers)

Public Technologies 03 Jul 2025
... as well as hear updates on instructional materials, the Permanent School Fund (PSF), math and social studies standards, and innovative courses, among other items.
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Guest Column: Ethnic Studies courses foster understanding and prevent repetition of past mistakes

San Diego Union-Tribune 02 Jul 2025
The Ramona City Unified School District has decided to postpone piloting its Ethnic Studies literature course for the 2025-26 school year due to insufficient funding from the state ... An Ethnic Studies ...
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California Turns Down Radical ‘Ethnic Studies’ Plan

National Review 27 Jun 2025
Who would have thought that California academics would say no to a leftist scheme for dominance? ....
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Ramona Unified postpones high school ethnic studies course for 2025-26

San Diego Union-Tribune 24 Jun 2025
A proposed ethnic studies literature course for high school students in the Ramona Unified School District is being postponed because funding has not been provided for its implementation.
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