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The concept of critical race theory, or CRT, has recently been vilified by politicians as a “radical,” “un-American,” and “racially divisive” concept. Several states have even banned schools from ...

How a complicated and expansive academic theory developed during the 1980s has become a hot-button political issue 40 years later. By Jacey Fortin About a year ago, even as the United States was ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — It has become a major issue in the Virginia governor’s race. Former President Donald Trump has railed against it. Republicans in the U.S. Senate introduced a resolution condemning ...

Jonathan Butcher is the Will Skillman fellow in education at The Heritage Foundation and the author of “Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth” (Post Hill Press/Bombardier ...

Christopher was a Visiting Fellow for Domestic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Critical race theory is an ideology which maintains that the United States is a fundamentally racist country ...

And how to learn more about the issue dividing school districts across the country. By Lauren Jackson We had a shorter holiday week on The Daily, but we covered a lot of ground, traveling from ...

Jonathan is the Acting Director of the Center for Education Policy and Will Skillman Senior Research Fellow in Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Proponents of critical race theory are not ...

Remote work turned out to be advantageous for people looking to leak information to reporters. Instructions that once might have been given in conversation now often had to be written down and beamed ...

Last month, Republican lawmakers decried critical race theory, an academic approach that examines how race and racism function in American institutions. "Folks, we're in a cultural warfare today," Rep ...