EDUC 1300 - Askew - Spring 2022: Topic 1

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Remember: DO NOT simply number your paper and answer the questions. You are to craft a paper around the questions and around your position, and research regarding the subject that you have chosen.

1. What is Critical Race Theory (CRT)?
2. Why is it such a controversial topic?
3. Reflect on your experience in elementary, middle school, and high school. Knowing what you know or have learned about history, was the education received an accurate account of history of all people as you were taught?
4. There are many cliches about history:
   • “No volume of history is insignificant, even the worst chapters. Especially the worst chapters.” – Terri Guillemets
   • “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. ” ― Michael Crichton
   • “Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.” – Abraham Lincoln
5. What do these cliches mean in relation to CRT?
6. Based on your research, is CRT harmful if taught? If so, why?
7. Based on your research is CRT harmful if not taught? If so, why?
8. What concerns you the most regarding CRT?
9. What compels you the most regarding CRT?
10. In your opinion, how do we move forward?

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