By RICK GANLEY & MARY MCINTYRE • SEP 3, 2019
Last fall, a Dover High School teacher was placed on leave after a class assignment on the Reconstruction Period led to students singing about the Ku Klux Klan to the tune of Jingle Bells.
The incident led to discussions within the Dover School District and other local school communities about better equipping teachers on how they talk about the histories of persons of color in their classrooms.
And as students begin a new school year, typical New Hampshire classrooms will be filled with a majority of white students taught by mostly white teachers.
NHPR’s Morning Edition Host Rick Ganley spoke with JerriAnne Boggis, the executive director of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, about how the nonprofit is creating curricula on black history for New Hampshire teachers.
