The 2022 American Instructional Resources Survey, a survey about teachers’ views on what they can teach, by Rand Education and Labor, which focuses on school and education issues, shows the new and proposed state laws restricting the instruction of difficult topics made a quarter of the country’s 4 million teachers hesitant or downright scared to teach those subjects. Many educators have been shying away from sensitive issues. I direct Penn State programs – the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiative and the Hammel Family Human Rights Initiative – that give my colleagues and me a real-time glimpse into the vulnerable state of K-12 instruction about difficult topics. In my view, some segments of American society are turning their backs on history. Moms for Liberty, and other groups and individuals opposing the instruction of some of these topics, say they’re protecting children from divisive, identity-shaming, indoctrinating and pornographic material. Parent groups have campaigned to restrict the instruction of such difficult topics as slavery. School districts around the country have banned books about issues ranging from racism to the Holocaust to the LGBTQ community. But it was just the latest in a series of efforts around the country to limit students’ access to books, lessons and courses about certain historical and societal topics, often dealing with race.Īt least 36 states have halted or are seeking the legal means to stop teachers from examining racism in their classrooms.
The decision garnered a great deal of media attention. The move was based on a determination the books contain references to social justice issues “and other information” not aligned with Florida Law.
(THE CONVERSATION) The Florida Department of Education announced on April 10, 2023, that it had rejected 35% of the social studies books publishers submitted for approval and use in the state’s public schools.
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