Ethnic-Studies Scholars Hoped Their Curriculum Would Break Boundaries. Critics are Calling it Propaganda

Scholars and teachers in California hoped to write a curriculum that shattered borders, bridged differences, and challenged narrow ways of thinking about identity.

But their proposal, the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, has kicked off a debate among critics who say it would do almost the opposite — overlooking some identity groups and imposing a politicized doctrine on students using “fashionable academic jargon.”

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