Title: Black history is not being taught properly in U.S. schools – Loquitur
Headings: Black history is not being taught properly in U.S. schools
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Black history is not being taught properly in U.S. schools
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Content: In 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center surveyed more than 1,700 U.S. social studies teachers, 1,000 U.S. high school seniors and inspected 12 popular U.S. history books to try and understand how black history is being taught and what is being learned by American students. According to The New York Times, here are their findings: “There was widespread slavery illiteracy among students. More than a third thought the Emancipation Proclamation formally ended slavery. ( It was actually the 13th Amendment)
Nearly 60 percent of teachers did not believe their textbook’s coverage of slavery was adequate.” A panel made up of the center’s staff, an independent education researcher with a background in middle school and high school education and a U.S. history professor with expertise in the history of slavery looked at how the 12 textbooks depicted enslavement. They evaluated the 12 textbooks with a 30-point rubric. “On average, the textbooks received a failing grade of 46 percent .” There is a horrible underlying truth to African American history and generations of educators have been unwilling to teach it in full because of fears of disturbing children. They are teaching about the “good” people who escaped to freedom but aren’t teaching about why they had to escape and why they were protesting in the first place.