Thank you to the Courageous Curriculum Coalition for compiling most of the following news stories. For a brief summary of the case, see Race Curriculum Controversy. For an extended account, published by Z Magazine, click here.
March 2, 2013
- Seattle High School Teacher’s Race and Social Justice Curriculum Suspended After Parent Complaint, The Stranger
March 3, 2013
- Center School Race and Social Justice Class Issue Heats Up, Seattle Schools Community Forum
March 4, 2013
- Seattle School District orders teacher to stop teaching class on race, KIRO 7 TV
- Center School students galvanized by class suspension, KIRO 7 TV (video)
March 5, 2013
- District suspends ‘race and social justice’ class after complaint, KOMO 4 TV (video)
- Controversy grows over school district stopping race and gender curriculum, The Stranger
March 6, 2013
- Expect Some Passion at Tonight’s Board Meeting, Seattle Schools Community Forum
- Center School Students, Alumni, Parents Testify at Packed School Board Meeting, Board Members Signal Support of Controversial Curriculum, The Stranger
- Are Seattle Schools Racist?, The Stranger
- Solid Ground supports teaching youth about race and social justice, Solid Ground Blog
March 7, 2013
- Decision nears on reinstating suspended high-school course on race, The Seattle Times
- Why it’s a good idea for Seattle’s students to talk about racial preferences, The Seattle Times
- Mr. Greenberg’s Opus at Last Night’s School Board Meeting, Seattle Schools Community Forum
March 8, 2013
- In a word: How does Seattle Public Schools treat minority schoolchildren?, The Seattle Times
- Controversial class on race to resume — with changes, The Seattle Times
- Breaking: Center School Race and Gender Curriculum Reinstated—Mostly, The Stranger
- Seattle Public Schools reinstates, limits social justice class, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Seattle schools chief reinstates suspended curriculum on race, KPLU
- Center School Ruling, Seattle Schools Community Forum
- Curiouser and Curiouser, Seattle Schools Community Forum
March 9, 2013
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Race and Class, Our District and…Fundraising?, Seattle Schools Community Forum
March 12, 2013
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Seattle Teachers’ Union Votes to Support Use of “Courageous Conversations” Curriculum at Center School, The Stranger
March 14, 2013
- District reinstates Center School class on social justice, Queen Anne and Magnolia News
March 25, 2013
- Seattle Public Schools’ Courageous Conversations curriculum, The Seattle Times
- Courageous Conversations: race and gender curricula, The Seattle Times
April 9, 2013
- Curriculum Disruption at Center School, Ballard Talisman of Ballard High School
May 2, 2013
- District should not censor curricula, The Sentinel of Nathan Hale High School
June 3, 2013
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School District May Transfer Teacher Whose Race and Social Justice Curriculum Drew Controversy, The Stranger
June 4, 2013
- Teacher transfer protested, Crosscut
- School Board Meeting Testimony List, Seattle Schools Community Forum
June 5, 2013
- Center School Staff and Students Plan to Protest at School Board Meeting Tonight, The Stranger
- ‘Free’ the Seattle teacher being punished for talking about race, KIRO Radio
- Supporters protest Seattle teacher’s transfer, The Seattle Times
- Frank talk about touchy subjects best lesson of all, The Seattle Times
- Reinstate our teacher!! Center School’s passionate message to Seattle School Board, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
June 6, 2013
- Free Jon Greenberg, KIRO Radio
June 7, 2013
- Seattle Public Schools stumbles on race, teacher Jon Greenberg, The Seattle Times
- Friday Open Thread, Seattle Schools Community Forum
June 11, 2013
- Justice for all?, Supporting Education Blog
June 12, 2013
- Popular Seattle Teacher Forced Out for Teaching Kids About Racism, Takepart
- Popular Seattle Teacher Forced Out for Teaching Kids About Racism, Yahoo News
- Seattle Education Association Rep Council Resolution on Center School Teacher, Seattle Schools Community Forum
- “This Class Changed My Life…”, Let Kids Be Kids Advocacy Blog
- Seattle school district releases investigation of Center School teacher, The Seattle Times
June 14, 2013
- Center School kids get award, but not their teacher, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Center School Students Receive Mayor’s Award for Fighting School District’s Shutdown of Race and Social Justice Class, The Stranger
- Center School Award from the City (and what McGinn Had to say), Seattle Schools Community Forum
June 20, 2013
- Center School students awarded for speaking out in teacher controversy, Queen Anne and Magnolia News
July 25, 2013
- County Council members want popular Center School teacher restored, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
September 12, 2013
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Seattle teachers deserve more, The Socialist Worker
January 24, 2014
- Is the Seattle School District squelching candid talk about race?, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
February 5, 2014
- School Board challenged: Is there risk in teaching race?, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Seattle School Board Meeting Tonight, Seattle Schools Community Forum
February 10, 2014
- Seattle School Board Meeting, Seattle Schools Community Forum
August 14, 2014
- Social justice teacher at Center School wins reinstatement, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Fall, 2014
- Jon Greenberg, Class of 1991, a profile in Quaker Times, the Franklin High School Alumni Newsletter
January 12, 2015
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Seattle Schools slap reinstated teacher with 2-week suspension, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
January 23, 2015
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Center School seniors to Seattle Public Schools: Give us back our teacher, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
January 29, 2015
- Suspension stands but popular Seattle teacher heads back to classroom, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
February 1, 2015
- Seattle Center School teacher won’t skip over the tough stuff, The Seattle Times
February 2, 2015
January/February
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Members organize across the district for Center School teacher; Superintendent responds by reducing suspension’s impact, The Unity Newsletter of the Seattle Education Association (see picture below)
March 13, 2015
- Teachers under scrutiny for lessons on social justice, The Sentinel of Nathan Hale High School
June 3, 2015
- 10 Teachers and Professors Who Have Come Under Fire for Addressing Racism and White Privilege, Atlanta Blackstar
January 21, 2016
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Why we need to save social justice teaching, Seattle Globalist
