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The courts have spoken: Arkansas has the right to shape its public school curriculum, including banning CRT and indoctrination. This ruling is a significant step toward keeping classrooms focused on education, rather than politics.

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“When neurons fire together, they wire together.” In this powerful inaugural installment of our “THINC Voices” video series, neurologist Dr. Diana Blum explains how today’s educational trends are doing more harm than good to students’ developing brains. Rather than teaching…

Ethnic studies is meant to elevate diverse voices and introduce complex histories into the classroom, says @DrSaraEBrown, THINC Advisory Council Member and Regional Director of @AJCGlobal San Diego (@AJC_SanDiego), in the latest installment of our THINC Voices video series. But,…

Education should reflect the values we share. Diversity needs to be a part of our classrooms, and it needs to be done the right way. Click the link in our bio to learn more about how you can make a difference in your child's education.

In this eye-opening installment of our video series THINC Voices, neurologist Dr. Diana Blum explains that when students learn that everyone is either an oppressor or oppressed by virtue of their ethnic or racial background, their brains' fight-or-flight response activates. The…

The founder of a curriculum consultant called Woke Kindergarten says that his organization supports abolishing Israel, the U.S., and schools (!). Yet, David Smokler, longtime former teacher and Executive Director of the K-12 Fairness Center at @StandWithUs, explains in the latest…

School may be out, but school boards across the country are making important decisions on what students will learn once they go back to class. If your district is trying to implement a radical curriculum, let us know! We can support your grassroots efforts to fight for inclusive…

Happy Independence Day from THINC Foundation! Today, and every day, we’re grateful for the freedoms and opportunities this great country makes possible.

The latest edition of THINC Voices features California high school student Karthi Gottipati. Karthi’s world history class was asked to write an essay about their personal experiences with discrimination and oppression. The only problem: Karthi hadn’t experienced any. He knew…

Mirroring their support for radical K-12 curricula, America's largest teachers unions showcased their partisanship through their full-throated support of the recent anti-Trump "No Kings" protests. Individual teachers are of course entitled to free expression, but unions have a…

In this article, Professor Richard Sander of UCLA details how the UC system tried and failed to make liberated ethnic studies coursework mandatory for all applicants. As he notes, the initiative was partisan, opaque, and possibly illegal from the start. Read more here:…

If the stories featured in our new THINC Voices series resonate with you, join the conversation! Let us know if you, your child, or your school have been on the receiving end of radical, discriminatory ideology, whether in "liberated" ethnic studies, another class, or a school…

In the latest installment of our THINC Voices video series, we hear from Stacey Aviva Clark (@MochaJewess), a faculty lecturer and doctoral student in Antisemitism Studies at Gratz College. She reflects on how the radical, “liberated” form of ethnic studies fosters a victim…

For many American children, the only Jews they learn about in History class are the ones who were murdered during the Holocaust. That has to change - and in New York City, change starts next semester. As part of the city's Hidden Voices initiative, which tells the stories of…

There's a problem with how many American students learn about slavery: they're taught that the institution was unique to or uniquely bad in America. That's not true, and it fuels unjustified anti-American attitudes and toxic racial narratives. In this Free Press column,…

Ethnic studies can and should celebrate different cultures and histories, building bridges among kids of different backgrounds. But, in the latest installment of our THINC Voices series, @DrSaraEBrown, THINC Advisory Council Member and Regional Director of @AJCGlobal San Diego,…

With myriad consultants lining up to provide radical K-12 curricula under the guise of "equity," where can districts turn for social studies education that doesn't push political messages and race essentialism? One option just emerged from the Foundation Against Intolerance &…

When Jewish students and educators speak up about antisemitism - whether from students, curricula, or administrators - their concerns are frequently minimized or disregarded. This issue goes far beyond the classroom, and there's a term for it: "traumatic invalidation". Read…