“In 2020, we have neo-Nazis gaining traction in this country. We need Black History Month more now than ever,” one historian says. BlackHistoryMonth - NBCBLK
“He always thought about it as a 365-day endeavor,” said Scott, whose research and work with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History has led him to read almost all of what Woodson has written.
Today, only about 20 percent of white students take ethnic studies classes in college, King said. In K-12 grades, “a lot of teachers don’t have the knowledge to teach history in February, let alone throughout the school year because they were educated in the U.S. education system.” There has been progress. Narratives on some topics in black history are more similar than different across the states, despite the use of different textbooks.compared 43 history textbooks used in middle schools and high schools in California and Texas, and showed that the texts from the two states did not “deal frankly with the fact that many of the Founding Fathers were slave owners.”
At least seven states have mandates with oversight committees regarding teaching black history. Some, according to King, such as New Jersey’s Amistad Commission, are better than others in providing system-wide training and resources for teachers. In too many cases, politics gets in the way of substantial and meaningful changes.
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