Varying definitions of critical race theory, or CRT, have circulated in online groups, public school board meetings and dinner conversations for the last several months. Some parents who oppose the ...

Last month, Wisconsin Republicans introduced a series of bills threatening to cut state funding of any public Wisconsin school by 10% if caught teaching critical race theory. Though the bills do not ...

In recent months, some state lawmakers and parents throughout the U.S. have taken up efforts to limit how and what students are taught about race and racism at the K-12 level. Some of these efforts ...

Christopher was a Visiting Fellow for Domestic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Critical race theory is an ideology which maintains that the United States is a fundamentally racist country ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Barbara Sprunt break down the Republican led efforts in the U.S. to discourage educators from teaching critical race theory in grade-level schools. It may be time for ...

"If we can’t have these hard conversations, how can we possibly expect our children to?" Shemia Reese with her family at Babler Elementary in Glencoe, Mo., on June 18. Staff Writer During the ...

It's been one year since the murder of George Floyd. Since his untimely death, the United States has seen a resurgence of a focus on civil rights and coming to grips with its history of racial ...

This page will be updated when new information becomes available. The movement to discuss how teachers discuss race, gender, and other such potentially controversial topics in schools has slowed—and ...

The concept of critical race theory, or CRT, has recently been vilified by politicians as a “radical,” “un-American,” and “racially divisive” concept. Several states have even banned schools from ...

Sept 21 (Reuters) - "Critical race theory," a once-obscure academic concept, has become a fixture in the fierce U.S. debate over how to teach children about the country's history and race relations.

Just before Labor Day, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought began a memo to federal agency heads with these words: "It has come to the President's attention that Executive Branch ...