UB helps educators to incorporate more Black history curricula in classrooms
Published on July 21th, 2022.
National calls for more inclusive and effective education in schools, as it pertains to American History and Black and Brown people, are intensifying.
School districts and academic institutions alike are being challenged to redesign curricula to better reflect what some are calling a "full" portrayal of American history.
Dr. Fatima Morrell is the associate superintendent of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Initiatives for Buffalo Public Schools. Dr. Morrell said as it relates to Black history education in schools today, it's historically nonexistent.
"Public schools predominantly are learning everything they know about math, science, history, social studies and music from a Eurocentric lens, or platform of education. And not to say that it's wrong, it's just not right for every single child every single day for their entire K-12 education," Dr. Morrell said.
Furthermore, as a veteran educator, Dr. Morrell says it's concerning that different states are teaching American history differently and oftentimes only including small parts of the historical African American experience.
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