Plus, the anti-abortion centers providing sex ed
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Liz Willen
When Holocaust survivor Kati Preston visits schools to tell her grim childhood story, she delivers a poignant message some don’t want her to convey: “You have to know your history to understand where you are coming from. Don’t let them distort it.”
Across the U.S., lessons like Preston’s are increasingly being chilled or censored, due to bans on the teaching of “divisive concepts,’’ like systemic racism an implicit bias. What does that mean for instruction on the persecution and murder of 6 million Jews and many others at the hands of the Nazis in World War II?
This week, we take you inside the state of New Hampshire, where Linda K. Wertheimer’s deeply reported story ([link removed]) (also in The Boston Globe Magazine) explains why the new laws are striking fear and uncertainty about what can and cannot be said in the latest culture war battles.
Hechinger’s Sarah Butrymowicz and Caroline Preston report on ([link removed]) another way in which schools are culture war battlegrounds: Dozens of anti-abortion centers in Texas are sending employees into public schools to talk to students and, in some cases, teach sex education classes. Some of the lessons use scare tactics about sexually transmitted illnesses and pregnancy that public health experts say aren’t effective. The story also appears with our nonprofit news partners at The Texas Tribune and The 19th. In addition, we are continuing our coverage of math issues ([link removed]) and hope you will check out our robust opinion section ([link removed]) .
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** Teachers struggle to teach the Holocaust without running afoul of new ‘divisive concepts’ rules ([link removed])
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In New Hampshire, laws restricting K-12 instruction on ‘divisive concepts’ yet requiring students be taught about the Holocaust are colliding in the classroom
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** ‘They just tried to scare us’: How anti-abortion centers teach sex ed inside public schools ([link removed])
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The groups work in dozens of school districts across Texas, but some public health experts say their curricula are misleading and biased
** PROOF POINTS: The research evidence for sex ed remains thin ([link removed])
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