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The CEO of Black Girls CODE on the Importance of Self-Belief [Carlee Ingersoll, Nautilus]

By William McClain
In [Nautilus]
February 23, 2023
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  • For the month of February, Nautilus’ Marketing Team will feature interviews with organizations and institutions working to increase opportunities for young Black people to imagine and succeed in STEM career paths—and donate 10 percent of all new member subscriptions toward their initiatives.
  • Black representation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields totaled only 9 percent in 2021, as reported by The National Science Foundation.
  • The mission of Black Girls CODE is to increase the number of Black women and women of color in digital technology by introducing them to computer science, education, and STEM skills at a young age.
  • Black Girls CODE works to shape the narrative that Black girls and women belong in STEM spaces and builds self-belief, perseverance, and a sense of belonging through mentorship, leading by example, and skill building.
  • Black Girls CODE partners with schools and local organizations to facilitate relationships with girls and their families, and recently launched CODE Along, a free video-based coding academy.
  • When Black girls and women win, everyone wins, as it increases financial equity and economic freedom, and allows for more diversity of thought when solving some of the world’s biggest problems.

Published February 22, 2023
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Florida teacher fired for video of empty bookshelves after DeSantis complaint [Judd Legum, Popular Information]

By William McClain
In [Popular Information]
February 22, 2023
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  • Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed a “”Curriculum Transparency”” bill into law in March 2021 that requires all library books to be chosen by a certified media specialist.
  • Brian Covey was a full-time substitute teacher in Duval County, Florida. He posted a video of empty bookshelves at his school to social media, which was seen by millions.
  • Covey was fired the day after DeSantis called his video a “”fake narrative”” and “”not true.””
  • Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) interpreted the law to apply to library books and classroom instruction, and has only approved 6,000 books out of 1.6 million titles.
  • Media specialists are now reviewing books to determine if they comply with the STOP Woke Act and Parental Rights in Education Act, also known as the “”Don’t Say Gay”” law.
  • The Best Man, a novel for children, has been reviewed and banned from schools in Duval County for featuring two men marrying and having a ring bearer, which DiBias determined was “”portraying sexual excitement and is damaging to students.””
  • In August 2021, DeSantis announced an effort to address the teacher shortage in Florida by allowing military veterans to receive a teaching certification without a college degree, which has resulted in the hiring of 10 teachers statewide.

Published February 21, 2023
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The Schools That Ban Smartphones [Mark Oppenheimer, The Atlantic]

By William McClain
In [The Atlantic]
February 18, 2023
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  • St. Andrew’s Episcopal Boarding School – A small school in Middletown, Delaware that has put phones in their place by not allowing them in public and only in rooms at night.
  • Student Body Co-Presidents – Ford Chapman and Trinity Smith, who use announcements to keep students up to date on events & birthdays and process into chapel after dinner.
  • Smartphone Usage Research – Shows how addictive they are, their costs to mental health, and how they impede attention.
  • Pushback Against Smartphones – Different forms, such as banning phones, allowing low-tech phones, prohibiting them during school day, and storing phones in shoe organizers.
  • Student Compliance – High due to discussion of pros and cons of smartphones, and seniors enforcing the rule.
  • Public Schools – Can still push back against smartphones with restrictions, such as allowing phones after school ends and on the bus home, or having students leave them at home.

Published February 18, 2023
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UPDATE: College Board scrubs website to cover up deceptions about AP African American Studies course [Judd Legum, Popular Information]

By William McClain
In [Popular Information]
February 17, 2023
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  • The College Board recently deleted a statement from their website defending revisions to the AP African American Studies course.
  • The revisions removed lessons on Black queer studies, Black feminism, mass incarceration, reparations, and the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as important Black writers such as Kimberlé Crenshaw and bell hooks.
  • The revisions tracked concerns expressed weeks earlier by the Florida Department of Education and Governor Ron DeSantis (R) who said the pilot version of the course was “political” and “lack[ed] educational value.”
  • The College Board initially lied about when the revisions were made and then again in a February 11 press release, claiming there were “”no negotiations about the content of this course with Florida.””
  • The College Board’s revisions appear to be politically motivated to appease right-wing critics, which has backfired as DeSantis has used the issue as a political cudgel.

Published February 16, 2023
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Math Is Magic [Camonghne Felix, The Atlantic]

By Spencer Chen
In [The Atlantic]
February 14, 2023
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• In second grade, the author suddenly stopped being able to do math, and her mother connected the dots between her sudden inability and the violent trauma she was experiencing.
• She was labeled an underperformer and troublemaker, and eventually transferred to an alternative high school, where a teacher saw something in her and tutored her during lunch.
• After graduating, she was diagnosed with severe ADHD and bipolar 2 disorder, which can affect cognitive skills and executive function.
• After months of treatment, her ability to compute improved, and she now approaches mathematics from a place of wonder and admiration.
• She now enjoys splitting the bill with her friends, as it gives her the chance to correct the narrative of the past.

Published February 14, 2023
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UPDATE: Michigan fights back [Judd Legum, Popular Information]

By Spencer Chen
In [Popular Information]
February 6, 2023
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• A conservative group called the Great Schools Initiative (GSI) launched a plan called “Operation Opt-Out” to exploit a Michigan statute that allows parents to opt their children out of sex education in order to erase LGBTQ people from public schools.
• GSI created its own opt-out form to target anything during the school day that acknowledges the existence of LGBTQ people, such as a teacher wearing a rainbow pin or any book with LGBTQ characters.
• GSI has partnered with the Thomas More Society, a far-right legal organization, to enforce the GSI opt-out forms with aggressive legal action.
• The Michigan Department of Education has pushed back against GSI’s plot, stating that parents are not legally entitled to opt children out of programs, practices, and resources outside of sexual education.
• Two Michigan school districts — Rochester and Troy — have already said they will not accept GSI’s form.
• GSI’s organizers are not ready to give up and are planning to challenge the Michigan Department of Education’s memo.
• A Michigan Senate committee is considering legislation to add sexual orientation and gender identity or expression to the state’s anti-discrimination law.

Published February 6, 2023
Visit Popular Information to read Judd Legum’s original post UPDATE: Michigan fights back

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Why the College Board watered-down its new course on Black history [Tesnim Zekeria, Popular Information]

By Spencer Chen
In [Popular Information]
February 2, 2023
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• The College Board released a revised framework for its new Advanced Placement (AP) course for African American Studies on February 1, 2021.
• The revisions address nearly all of the objections raised by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and other right-wing critics, including the removal of lessons on Black Lives Matter, the case for reparations, and queer studies.
• The College Board insists that any suggestion that politics played a role in the revisions is “a gross misrepresentation of the content of the course and the process by which it was developed.”
• In 2019, the College Board made over $1.1 billion dollars in revenue, and its CEO, David Coleman, took home more than $2.5 million in compensation in 2020.
• Nearly 600 African American Studies faculty from colleges and universities across the country signed a letter protesting DeSantis’ ban of the course in Florida, calling it “censorship and a frontal attack on academic freedom.”

Published February 2, 2023
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UPDATE: Florida Commissioner of Education attacks Popular Information [Judd Legum, Popular Information]

By Spencer Chen
In [Popular Information]
February 1, 2023
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• Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz Jr. recently lashed out at Popular Information’s reporting on Florida classroom libraries, calling it “fake news from media activists too lazy to read [Florida] law.”
• Popular Information’s reporting was accurate and later confirmed by other outlets, including the Washington Post.
• Diaz told the National Review that teachers who packed up their classroom libraries were simply participating in a “stunt” intended to damage DeSantis politically.
• Diaz’s recommendations to teachers directly contradicts the training produced by his own agency, the Florida Department of Education.
• The Florida Department of Education will not answer basic questions about what kind of books are permitted in Florida schools.
• Right-wing activists hostile to Florida teachers are seizing on the opportunity to “get into the school Libraries” and determine whether teachers are “following the laws.”
• Chad Choate, the chair of the Manatee County School Board who was appointed by DeSantis, was the featured speaker at a meeting of the Manatee Patriots on Tuesday night.

Published February 1, 2023
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Inside the audacious new scheme to erase LGBTQ people from Michigan schools [Judd Legum, Popular Information]

By Spencer Chen
In [Popular Information]
January 30, 2023
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• Great Schools Initiative (GSI): A newly-formed conservative group launching a plan to remake Michigan public schools by exploiting a Michigan statute that allows parents to opt their children out of sex education.
• Led by co-founders Nathan Pawl, Matthew Nelson, and Monica Yatooma, GSI seeks to redefine “sex education” to include a teacher wearing a rainbow pin, teaching about the women’s suffrage movement, the availability of a gender-neutral bathroom, any book with LGBTQ characters, and any acknowledgment of LGBTQ pride week.
• GSI plans to overwhelm Michigan schools with litigation, funded by the far-right Thomas More Society. The group has access to the LET THEM BE Facebook group, which has over 55,000 members.
• GSI’s website features testimonials from fake Michigan parents, and it is unclear who is funding the group’s operations.

Published January 30, 2023
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Florida teachers told to remove books from classroom libraries or risk felony prosecution [Judd Legum, Popular Information]

By Spencer Chen
In [Popular Information]
January 23, 2023
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• Teachers in Manatee County, Florida, are being told to make their classroom libraries inaccessible to students, or risk felony prosecution, in order to comply with new laws and regulations championed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R).
• The policy is based on the premise that teachers and librarians are using books to “”groom”” students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.
• The law requires that all library books selected be free of pornography and material prohibited under s. 847.012, suited to student needs and their ability to comprehend the material presented, and appropriate for the grade level and age group for which the materials are used or made available.
• Teachers must make their classroom libraries inaccessible to students until they can establish that each book has been approved by a librarian.
• The process of restoring student access to classroom libraries is complex and requires cross-checking each book in their classroom library with the district library catalog, and any book not currently held in the district libraries must be individually evaluated and approved by a librarian.
• The review must also be consistent with a complex training, which was heavily influenced by right-wing groups like Moms For Liberty and approved by the Florida Department of Education just last week.
• The Parental Rights In Education Act prohibits all instruction on “”sexual orientation or gender identity”” in K-3 classrooms and instruction in other grades that is “”not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate.””
• The teacher training approved by the Florida Department of Education, however, does not inform librarians that the Parental Rights in Education Act and Stop WOKE ACT do not apply to library books.
• Manatee County schools have already removed several books from school libraries because they contain LGBTQ characters or themes.

Published January 23, 2023
Visit Popular Information to read Judd Legum’s original post Florida teachers told to remove books from classroom libraries or risk felony prosecution

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