Frail rules: Most autism research journals do not mandate that researchers include racial or ethnic data on participants. FatCamera/Getty Images Just one-quarter of autism intervention studies provide data on the race and ethnicity of participants, according to a new study. The analysis, published in Autism in January, focused on educational or behavioral interventions given in […]
Illustration by Laurenne Boglio Here it is — your weekly update on important autism research tweets, freshly baked from the computer. Jessica Steinbrenner, advanced research scientist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her colleagues tweeted a thread via Autism about their new finding: […]
It’s no secret that state universities and K-12 schools teach critical racial theory. And if public schools teach it, it means your taxes are paying for it. In Michigan, whistleblowers found that Grand Haven High School educators used presentation materials that taught intersectionality, one of the basic ideas of Critical Race Theory. With intersectionality, educators […]
Incumbents voted last year to adopt the Diversity Plan, which aims to “equip our learning community with the knowledge, skills and empathy to engage effectively in a diverse world,” records show. The challengers “will not allow a curriculum to be taught … that teaches that a group of people is different from any other group […]
Members of the education committee of a local school district raised questions during the Garfield County Latino community committee meeting in New Castle on September 8th. From left are Brianda Cervantes, school community organizer for Roaring Fork Schools, Garfield Re-2 school board member Katie Mackley, and Garfield District 16 superintendent Brad Ray.John Stroud / Post […]
Given concerns about critical racial theory, Bermudian Springs School District Superintendent Shane Hotchkiss said the district’s curriculum will remain unchanged. “We have an adopted curriculum that aligns with Pennsylvania state standards, and it has been in place for several years,” said Hotchkiss. “The curriculum for social studies and history, K-12, has not changed.” Critical Racial […]
Iowa has declared critical racial theory to be “discriminatory indoctrination,” and a ban is due to go into effect in just over a week – but leaked documents show that a major education agency designed to support students with special needs is holding workshops to implement the controversial program when the legislature finally made the […]
