by Jon Greenberg | Jan 9, 2017 | Civic Engagement, Everyday Feminism, Featured, Race and Racism, Race Curriculum Controversy, Roads to Racial Justice
The following content is based on an Everyday Feminism article and will be the focus of a coming workshop on MLK Day. For workshop details, click here or scroll to the end of the article. This post is part of the Roads to Racial Justice series. I’m very White, which...
by Jon Greenberg | Oct 13, 2016 | BlackLivesMatterInSchools, Civic Engagement, Event, Race and Racism, Race Curriculum Controversy
Very few people in this country today would argue against the methods and gains of the Civil Rights Movement. Yet, polls reveal that Americans — especially White Americans — are as skeptical today about the Black Lives Matter movement as they were about...
by Jon Greenberg | Jan 14, 2016 | Civic Engagement, Event, Race and Racism, Race Curriculum Controversy
For those in the Seattle area, please join us for this important panel prior to the 34th Annual MLK Day Rally and March: The Need For Increased Social Justice Teaching — And The Obstacles Such Education Faces Social justice education, such as ethnic studies courses,...
by Jon Greenberg | Oct 28, 2015 | Civic Engagement, Featured, Race and Racism, Race Curriculum Controversy
It’s finally here: the story of the Seattle Race Curriculum Controversy in print (at least 1700 words of it, anyway). I confess that Z Magazine wasn’t my first choice for publication. I haven’t read the magazine, promoted in the classic lefty...
by Jon Greenberg | Oct 12, 2015 | Event, Race and Racism, Race Curriculum Controversy
On Saturday, October 17th–at the Northwest Conference on Teaching for Social Justice–Sooz Stahl, Gerardine Carroll, and I will again be teaming up to tell the story of the Race Curriculum Controversy: Discussion: A Case Study of the Race Curriculum...