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: 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. It is important to know that black American history is American history. Students need to be taught about how slavery shaped the country and the lasting effects that it still has to this day, as well as how black Americans contributed to this country. Photo by Naval History and Heritage Command
The New York Times has created The 1619 Project in hopes to “reframe the country’s history by putting the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.” This project explores the plentiful contributions of black Americans throughout U.S. history, explaining that no aspect of the country has been untouched by black Americans and that a lot of aspects we all love today would not exist without them. To reframe American history, we must acknowledge the year 1619, when the first slaves were brought to America, as the nation’s birth year and not 1776.