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K-12 Conferences For Teachers Of Every Subject Now Focus On Race Instead Of The Subject

Luke Rosiak
K-12 Conferences For Teachers Of Every Subject Now Focus On Race Instead Of The Subject
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Groups like the National Council of Teachers of English and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics provide training and standards for K-12 teachers of those subjects across the country. But the governing bodies appear to have given up celebrating their chosen fields, trading scholarship for one-note repetition of ideas about race.

The summer and fall conferences or workshops hosted by seemingly all of these groups are focused on “anti-racism,” according to a review of conference materials by the Locke Society, a conservative group focused on K-12 education.

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