
Teaching about racism: Americans are divided
Americans agree that schools should teach about historic racism and slavery, but divided on present-day racism, writes Matt Barnum on Chalkbeat. He analyzed 20 polls. Should racism be taught as history or current events? Americans disagree. People also disagree about whether “schools pay too much or too little attention to race and racism,” he writes. However, “the vast majority of parents also said their child’s school does at least a decent job keeping them abreast of curri