From the CRT hysteria to the current targeting of university DEI efforts, we’ve seen an escalating right wing attack on public education in this country. Often under the guise of “parental rights,” these attacks have targeted teachers, LGBTQ+ students, books, curriculum, SEL, and equity-mined programming. Dr. Heather Harding, the executive director of Campaign for our Shared Future, joins us this week to share her experience in organizing opposition to this rising tide of racist and anti-equity attacks on public education. The Campaign for Our Shared Future is a time bound, nonpartisan campaign to defend and promote K12 public education amid political attacks. But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including a heated exchange in Congress concerning Ethnic Studies and new data on low rates of college degree attainment.

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AGENDA

0:00 - Welcome!

6:41 - Ethnic Studies under attack yet again

25:27 - New data on low rates of degree attainment

43:48 - Dr. Heather Harding on Organizing the Resistance

1:16:27 - College encampments earn important victories

DO-NOW STORIES:

Berkeley superintendent, GOP congressman tussle over ‘liberated’ ethnic studies

Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium Website 

40% of 2013 HS grads who started on a degree or credential didn’t finish

NCES Report: A First Look at the 2021 Postsecondary Enrollment, Completion, and Financial Aid Outcomes of Fall 2009 Ninth-Graders

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The Campaign for Our Shared Future

CLASS DISMISSED:

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