#77 - Teaching the Truth Amid Culture Wars and Backlash w/ Jesse Hagopian

With the sweeping passage of bills aiming to ban truthful teaching of America’s history and legacy of racism, educators across the USA are grappling with the spectre of being fired over something as simple as assigning a children’s book about integration. What’s really at stake when politicians strip away learning standards that uplift MLK and criticize the KKK? To help us understand the present culture wars and the increasingly rowdy scenes at school boards across the country, we’re joined by teacher, author, and activist Jesse Hagopian! Jesse is a high school Ethnic Studies teacher in Seattle, an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine, director of the Black Education Matters Student Activist Award, and a campaign organizer for the Zinn Education Project’s “Teach the Black Freedom Struggle.” But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including a new report about the dwindling number of school librarians and new survey data out of California regarding how people feel about their public schools. → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! Please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel! AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 5:55 - The Disappearing School Librarian 19:35 - CA voters show support for public schools 34:50 - #TeachTruth with Jesse Hagopian 1:12:30 - EduColor Summit FTW! DO-NOW STORIES: Where Are the School Librarians? New Study Shows 20 Percent Decline In Past Decade Perspectives on School Librarian Employment in the United States, 2009-10 to 2018-19 California voters give schools and teachers top grades in year-end survey Californians and K–12 Education Amid COVID-19 Recovery More from our guest: Blog - I Am an Educator Black Lives Matter at School Rethinking Schools TeachingForBlackLives.org Zinn Education Project Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat