I recently asked a fellow academic, in conversation, how they try to integrate critical thinking into their classroom, and they replied that they don’t have "much time for that kind of thing." I ...
Critical race theory is simply a way of thinking about where each of us came from. The idea was forged not too long ago in the late 1900s. It was initially applied to the field of legal studies but ...
Argumentation theory and critical thinking together form a crucial sphere of scholarly inquiry that interrogates the nature, structure and ethics of human reasoning. This interdisciplinary field ...
For the past several decades, educators have talked more honestly about racial inequality in the classroom and beyond. But their ability to do so in the future is in doubt given the current ...
I n the wave of protest that followed the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, it was not uncommon to hear the complaint from conservative pundits and politicians that “critical race theory” ...
One year after the peak of the backlash, teachers say there has been a chilling effect on teaching issues related to race and racism. Staff Writer When 10 Black shoppers were killed at a Buffalo, N.Y.
The origins of the critical race theory (CRT) can be traced as far back as the 1960s when the intellectual movement started emerging within a small group of people in the field of legal studies. Over ...
Today, in Part I of this essay, I explain critical race theory and show how many of its ideas have made their way into public schools across the country, prompting a backlash that has led to the ...
The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests were the largest civil rights protests in American history, so it was virtually a given there would be a potent backlash. The only question was what it would look ...