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Opinion
Opinion: Does CRT make white students feel bad? Try being a Black student
Patrick recalled the horror he felt as a small child integrating a suburban school district. He rode the bus to…
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Education
Education committee puts early focus on parental rights, critical race theory
The first education debate of the 2022 legislative session featured hours of discussion on Tuesday of a proposed “parents’ bill…
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Education
More than 120 K-12 education bills already filed for 2022 Missouri legislative session
During the past year, concerns about COVID policies, critical race theory and controversial books have highlighted tension in public education.…
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Education
Lawmakers scrutinize Missouri social studies standards, school boards
Missouri lawmakers trained their focus this week on how school boards interact with the public and the ways in which…
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Education
1619 Project now coming out in book form
Thais Perkins is the owner of Reverie Books in Austin, Texas, and the parent of a middle school student and…
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Opinion
Opinion: Denying history is a major impediment in state legislatures, Congress
If you do not know your history or, worse still, know it but deny it, how on earth do you…
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Education
Advocates urge lawmakers to focus on inequity in education, not critical race theory
Educators, students and advocates urged state lawmakers Monday afternoon to focus on tackling larger issues of inequity across education rather…
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Religion
Black Baptist group renews historic calls for civil rights
The Progressive National Baptist Convention marked last week the 60th anniversary of its forging in the heat of the civil…
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Education
Opponents of ‘critical race theory’ urge Missouri lawmakers to take action
A handful of parents pleaded with state lawmakers to take action on critical race theory in schools — an academic…
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Religion
Southern Baptists pick president who worked for racial unity
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Southern Baptist Convention tamped down a push from the right on Tuesday at its largest…
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Opinion
Opinion: What Republicans need to know about critical race theory
The late historian John Henrik Clarke explained the dominant subculture’s preoccupation with manipulating history. Europeans “began manipulating history in the 15th century…
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Religion
Racial tension simmers as Southern Baptists gather for key meeting
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Race-related tension within the Southern Baptist Convention is high heading into a national meeting this week.…
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Politics
Lawmakers push governor for special sessions on myriad of issues
A tax that funds $2 billion of Missouri’s Medicaid program. A push to ban the teaching of critical race theory…
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