Protests from San Francisco teachers and principals in June saved a required ethnic studies class in public schools from being shelved. But some parents are still complaining, saying that the course ...

This year, all California public schools were expected to adopt a high school graduation requirement teaching ethnic studies classes on the history, contributions and struggles of California’s African ...

SACRAMENTO — There is new controversy over the California curriculum, and a new course is required in high school classrooms across the state. New legislation is proposing what can be taught in ethnic ...

Herein lie the ironies: In the same week that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy was honored with a federal holiday, the Florida Department of Education rejected an Advanced Placement African-American ...

On a rainy Friday afternoon at Santa Monica High School, ethnic studies teacher Marisa Silvestri introduced her class to the rap song “Kenji.” As singer Mike Shinoda narrated his family’s experiences ...

A student uses their laptop in an ethnic studies class at Santa Monica High School in Los Angeles on March 28, 2023. (File photo by Lauren Justice/For CalMatters) This story was originally published ...

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis looked at the Advanced Placement’s new African American Studies class, he complained that it seeks to radicalize students. Maynard Jackson High School teacher Rashad ...

On a rainy Friday afternoon at Santa Monica High School, ethnic studies teacher Marisa Silvestri introduced her class to the rap song “Kenji.” As singer Mike Shinoda narrated his family’s experiences ...

LORTON, Virginia – Sean Miller quiets the stereo blasting Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” and begins his lessons for the day, a journey through centuries with improvisational stops along the way.

I am a white student at Hereford High School — statistically the whitest public high school in Baltimore County — and when I signed up for an Advanced Placement African American Studies class, I was ...