Presenters: Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr., (TBC) James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
Sarah Robinson, Education Justice Campaign Director, Granite State Progress, NH
Erin Bakkom, President of the Association of Portsmouth Teachers, 8th-grade social studies teacher, Portsmouth Middle School
Moderator: David Watters, NH State Senator and Professor of English Emeritus, University of New Hampshire

It has been a year since NH Legislators joined a wave of states across the country to pass laws prohibiting teaching critical perspectives on histories, laws, social practices, and literature that have excluded opposing voices and histories of African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and People of Color.

For this panel, presenters will discuss the effect these “divisive concepts” laws have had on teaching excluded perspectives in their classroom with a particular focus on NH. The panel will also explore the paradox of an educational system based on the notion of socializing young people into the existing structure of society, while also claiming to have, as its core mission, the goal of teaching students to be critical thinkers.