“The Simon Wiesenthal Center, like the majority of Jewish community leaders and organizations, is encouraged that the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum released today does not include any content that is, or can be perceived as, anti-Semitic or anti-Israel,” said Rabbi Meyer H. May, the ...
California Ethnic Studies California Ethnic Studies is aligned to the values and expected outcomes outlined in the California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. In one semester of five units, the course explores the history, culture, and experiences of different ethnic and racial groups. The course look...
Though adoption by schools is voluntary, the California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum has generated intense controversy in the state.
Implementation of Ethnic Studies (ES) classes in K-12 schools has been a contentious issue across the U.S. for several years, especially in the state of California. Due to vociferous challenges to California's Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC), a new offshoot of ES called "Liberated" ...
TheEthnic Studies Model Curriculumwas adopted by the State Board of Education in March 2021. It will focus on the traditional ethnic studies first established in California higher education, which has focused on several ethnicities in the United States: Black, Chicano and Latino, Native American, ...
SEE ALSO: California extends cocktails-to-go and outdoor dining rules The model curriculum focuses on four historically marginalized groups that are central to college-level ethnic studies: African Americans, Chicanos and other Latinos, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Native Americans. It al...
California Department of Education officials say this would be the first statewide ethnic studies model curriculum in the nation. Some other states have taken different approaches to teaching ethnic studies. Oregon is developing ethnic studies standards for its social studies curriculum, while Connectic...
Trustees of California State University, the nation’s largest four-year public university system, are expected to vote Wednesday on making ethnic studies a graduation requirement.
The California-based pro-Israel AMCHA Initiative praised the veto in astatement, saying Newsom was “keeping politics and anti-Semitism out of an educational curriculum.” It said the draft curriculum promoted “Critical Ethnic Studies,” which is “inherently anti-Semitic,”...
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota, Peik Hall 125, 159 Pillsbury Drive Southeast, Minneapolis, MN, 55454, USA Vichet Chhuon Department of Education, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Cynthia Hudley Corresp...