How to Use critical race theory in a Sentence

critical race theory

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  • In today's context: Political messaging on critical race theory and history curriculums seems to have waned in the last year.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Take the attack on critical race theory, or at least the version retailed by Rufo and his ilk.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Two years ago, the state BOE approved a ban on teaching critical race theory in public schools.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The effects of the expansion of the welfare state on the Black community should be taught as part of critical race theory.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • In December, the school board voted to ban the teaching of critical race theory.
    — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
  • Chris Rufo, of course, was the kind of architect of the anti–critical race theory moral panic.
    — The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Education and critical race theory are on the ballot across the US in 2022.
    — Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Youngkin’s rise to office ran through a panic about critical race theory and trans students.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Funny, we were told that nobody wants to teach critical race theory in schools and that the law couldn’t possibly define these concepts.
    — The Editors, National Review, 31 May 2023
  • There are book bans and last year DeSantis signed another bill with this one banning the teaching of critical race theory in schools.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
  • That was frequent, the source of much poverty, and one reason why politicians who play the race card prohibit teaching critical race theory.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024
  • In 2021, Texas banned critical race theory from public schools.
    — Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Which is his big thing, is that critical race theory and diversity and inclusion initiatives are one and the same thing.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Tushnet is notable as one of the leading lights of the critical legal studies movement (CLS), most known for spawning the sub-field of critical race theory.
    — Jeffrey Blehar, National Review, 20 July 2023
  • Youngkin had opened a tip line for people to report instances of divisive concepts and critical race theory being taught in schools.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The district became one of the first places where school board candidates raising fears about critical race theory took the majority.
    — Stephanie Drenka, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
  • Texas has banned the teaching of critical race theory, and nationwide, libraries are pulling books off the shelves that contain diverse characters.
    — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
  • That student, who asked to be known only by her first name, Quinn, had just come out as transgender, and did not think a board consumed by debate over masks and critical race theory would protect her.
    — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
  • DeSantis also signed a bill in April 2022 banning critical race theory from being taught in schools.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • One episode broaches the subjects of critical race theory and the state’s conservative leanings.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Apr. 2024
  • While the battles over critical race theory have, for the most part, occurred at the state and local levels, two conservative lawmakers are taking up the fight in Congress.
    — Nate Hochman, National Review, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Hogan has also downplayed concerns about critical race theory, which Trump and DeSantis have seized on.
    — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The backdrop of the war on ethnic studies and critical race theory frames efforts to end the U.S. Department of Education as part of a cultural war and a cancel culture.
    — J. Luke Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • On Wednesday, the Senate passed a bill that bans teaching critical race theory from classrooms and lessons at public college campuses.
    — Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Kendrick believes that topics like critical race theory and gender identity should be taught in public schools.
    — Charlotte Observer, 8 Feb. 2024
  • This has led to incendiary rhetoric over what too many people think is critical race theory and the books of a disproportionate number of Black authors being banned.
    — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
  • In June 2021, DeSantis banned the teaching of critical race theory in Florida public schools.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Pryor said South Carolina’s ban on the teaching of critical race theory in public schools has not put the museum out of reach for local elementary, middle and high schools that hope to make field trips there.
    — Aaron Morrison, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2023
  • The banning would grow to almost anything related to critical race theory and then wokeness.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Pawlak also agreed with a school board decision in 2021 to only allow two classes in Germantown to discuss critical race theory, a framework for understanding how certain public policies have caused or upheld racial inequality.
    — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024

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