One year after the peak of the backlash, teachers say there has been a chilling effect on teaching issues related to race and racism. Credit - Illustration by Stephanie Dalton Cowan for TIME When 10 ...

Melanie Hester could see her fifth graders were confused. A history lesson she was teaching about Native Americans asked the students to think about how they could honor the cultural history of the ...

A Utah student group was called “Black and Proud.” The principal had it renamed. A New Hampshire history teacher used to discuss current events in a unit about race and economics. No more. And Florida ...

"What House Bill 3979 does for me is it basically takes away my privilege of teaching," said Lakeisha Patterson. "I'm having open and honest dialogue and conversations with my students." Lakeisha ...

MSNBC continued its war on those fighting against teaching critical race theory (CRT) in schools, with a guest last week comparing laws against it to authoritarian "memory laws." "When I saw these ...

Critical race theory emerged from law schools in the 1980s Some law professors have faced personal attacks over their scholarship Debate over CRT ratcheted up over the past year Aug 4 - Laws that ban ...

Culturally responsive teaching and critical race theory are not the same thing. But laws banning the teaching of critical race theory in K-12 schools, and other related efforts, could spell out ...

In 13 states, new laws or directives govern how race can be taught in schools, in some cases creating reporting systems for complaints. The result, teachers and principals say, is a climate of fear ...