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California Board of Education president Linda Darling-Hammond during a March 18 meeting of the board. (Screenshot)
Posted inEducation

Ethnic studies curriculum passes 11-0 after one final day of sparring

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman March 18, 2021March 19, 2021
Jay Rosenblatt, program director at the Jewish Film Institute, discusses films with the youth jury for the 2019 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. (Photo/Courtesy JFI)
Posted inFilm

New JFI fellowship for teens into films and changing the world

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 18, 2021
Jose Medina presenting AB331 to the California Assembly Education Committee in March 2019. The bill would make ethnic studies a high school requirement. (Photo/Twitter-Jose Medina)
Posted inOpinion

Iranian Jewish scholar: Ethnic studies lesson on Middle Eastern Jewish Americans goes far enough

Saba Soomekh by Saba Soomekh March 17, 2021March 17, 2021
Berman stands at the front of a room addressing an audience
Posted inEducation

Final vote Thursday on ethnic studies curriculum

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman March 16, 2021March 16, 2021
A middle school student at Brandeis Marin at an outdoor classroom, February 2021. (Photo/Anya Shuteroff)
Posted inEducation

Our Pandemic Year: Jewish day schools had to relearn the ABCs of teaching

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 16, 2021March 16, 2021
State Schools Superintendent Tony Thurmond speaking to the press Aug. 14 about the state's proposed high school ethnic studies curriculum. (From left) Assemblyman Marc Berman, Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Thurmond, Senator Ben Allen, Assemblyman Jose Medina (Photo/Facebook-Abby Porth)
Posted inUncategorized

Jewish studies profs: Ethnic studies curriculum substitutes political concerns for historical accuracy

Ari Kelman (Photo/Courtesy) by Ari Y. Kelman, Devin E. Naar and Jessica Marglin March 16, 2021March 16, 2021
Members of the Jewish community and their allies protest anti-Semitism at UCLA, Nov. 6, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Ronen Tivony-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inCalifornia

UCLA anti-Israel resolution reveals rift among Jewish students

by Ryan Torok and Forward March 16, 2021
School buses in Boston lined up on the first day of school in 2014. (Photo/JTA-David L Ryan-The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Posted inRosh Hashanah

Where Rosh Hashanah falls on the first day of school, districts wrestle with whether to change their plans

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA March 8, 2021
Administrators at St. Mary's College in Moraga have temporarily removed "Falcon Boy" by Fritz von Graevenitz. (Photo/Vanessa Ramirez)
Posted inNews

Statue by Nazi-era artist under review at St. Mary’s College

by Gabriel Greschler February 26, 2021March 1, 2021
Craig Heimbichner
Posted inNews

State education official under scrutiny for Holocaust conspiracy theories

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman February 26, 2021February 26, 2021

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