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Today at Ms. | August 21, 2023 |
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BY AVIVA DOVE-VIEBAHN and KARON JOLNA | Ms. Classroom wants to hear from educators and students being impacted by legislation attacking public education, higher education, gender and sexuality studies, activism and social justice in education, and diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Submit pitches and/or completed draft op-eds and reflections (between 500-800 words) to Aviva Dove-Viebahn at [email protected]. Posts will be accepted on a rolling basis, with posting beginning in August 2023.
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BY ROXY SZAL, AVIVA DOVE-VIEBAHN and KARON JOLNA | Nicholas L. Clarkson, former assistant professor of gender studies at New College of Florida, has announced his resignation from the school, which used to be known as the most progressive public college in the state. Clarkson was the only full-time gender studies professor at New College.
“I have loved teaching at New College,” Clarkson wrote in a letter addressed to interim president and former Republican House speaker Robert Corcoran. “But now Florida is the state where learning goes to die.”
Over 40 professors have already resigned from New College in light of these attacks, according to Clarkson’s letter, who calls the mass exodus “an indictment of your and the trustees’ actions, as well as the state’s regressive politics.” (Click here to read more) |
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A student holds a placard at a âWalkout 2 Learnâ rally to protest Florida education policies outside Orlando City Hall on April 21, 2023 in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) |
BY AVIVA DOVE-VIEBAHN | A new Florida law severely restricts gender, race and sexuality studies at state-funded colleges—and eliminates diversity programs altogether. Far from just a “Florida problem,” this is one piece of an alarming right-wing strategy spreading nationwide. Gender studies advocates warn, “Thiis is about to be the entire country’s problem. Every Republican-dominated state legislature is watching closely what is happening in Florida.”
Far-right conservatives fear that younger generations will be taught to think critically about the rampant misrepresentation and sanitization of American history and the continued discrimination against women, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals. (Click here to read more) |
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