Summer Boismier of Norman High School in Oklahoma gave kids a QR code to the Brooklyn library’s list of banned books

A high school teacher in Oklahoma resigned this week after providing her students with a QR code to access banned free books online, a strange new twist in the cascading right-wing panic over the teaching of race and gender in schools. “I don’t feel like I can go back to the classroom right now in this state and environment in which we find ourselves doing my job,” Summer Boismier told The Daily Beast. It was the resignation of Boismier First reported by Fox 25 reporter Wendy Soares. Boesmere, an English…

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American students hardly know anything about Reconstruction

Schools should be more honest with America’s students. If we don’t teach students about the past, we don’t provide them with the tools to succeed in the future. And any history of America is woefully incomplete without a deep examination of post-Civil War reconstruction. Disturbing, teacher at Illinois Middle School advertiser (In a report looking at Education Standards for American History), Reconstruction is “generally the most skipped and summarized unit” in the history curriculum. Theron Wilkerson, the Mississippi social studies teacher quoted in this same report, went further, say: “Because…

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