
Divide over how to teach about race plays out more in school districts with shifting demographics, study finds
CNN
More than 17.7 million public school students enrolled in almost 900 districts in the US have had their learning restricted when teaching concepts related to race, racism and gender, according to a new study.
Researchers at UCLA and UC San Diego released a study, titled "The Conflict Campaign," last week. The findings showed widespread conflict over teaching and learning about critical race theory in K-12 education; the role media plays in the divide in communities regarding teaching CRT; and revealed that there was more division over CRT in districts where White student enrollment fell by more than 18% since 2000.
For more than a year, there have been numerous efforts to ban and restrict critical race theory, a concept that seeks to understand and address how inequality and systemic racism is part of American society.