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• Dr. Taneisha Pruitt's blog from Policy Matters Ohio for education stats and state budget info
• Jan Resseger's blog and ​Diane Ravitch's blog for well-sourced commentary on education in Ohio
• ​The African American Policy Forum blog for African American responses to current events and issues
• Red Wine & Blue on Facebook for ways to take action
• ​League of Women Voters on Facebook for current events and analysis of critical issues in Ohio
• The "How Things Work at the Ohio Statehouse" group on Facebook
• Maria Bruno (Equality Ohio) on Twitter
• David DeWitt (Ohio Capital Journal) on Twitter
• Erase the Space on Instagram for in-school intel and local responses to national problems
• Kaleidoscope Youth Center on Instagram for timely, visual info about issues impacting queer students
• OPAWL on Instagram for updates on affirming curriculum and community events
• Rachel Coyle (State Action Initiative) on TikTok for quick explainers of current events 
• ACLU of Ohio on TikTok for critical analysis delivered in bite sizes

From the Desk of
​Harvey Graff

Read publications written by Harvey Graff, Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor Emeritus of English and History at The Ohio State University.

Book banning

• The History of Book Banning
• Book Banning Past and Present
• ​Book ban in Washington County is an example of the ‘new illiteracy
• I wrote ‘Out of Darkness’ for my high school students. Now high schools are removing it
• ​Book banning isn’t about content; it’s a fight for supremacy in culture wars
• The right-wing truck convoys arrive in Ohio: The unconstitutionality and inhumanity of Book Banners
• Book Banning Past and Present and the Rights of Young Readers​​​
• Battle of the books: A professor examines the 1619, 1620, 1776, and 1836 projects
• ​Dark money fuels Kansas and Missouri school book banners. Don’t let the minority rule
• The Book Business Ecosystem Is Under Attack
  

critical race theory

• Attacks on Critical Race Theory Threaten Democracy
• There Is No Debate About Critical Race Theory
• ​The New White Fright and Flight and the Critical Race Theory Nondebate​​
• Busting Myths: Shouldn’t Ivy League graduates know better than to remake American history?​​
• Busting Myths: How many “projects” does it take to obstruct a truly American history?
• Busting Myths: The U.S. and Canada - Confronting the past in the present
• The media mangle the Second Big Lie: The nondebate over critical race theory
• Busting Myths: Marketing the Second Biggest Lie: The Faith & Freedom Caucus versus American history & Christianity
• Busting Myths: DeWine whines about critical race theory
  
• Opinion: Attacks on 'critical race theory' a dangerous assault on democracy and education
  

education

• Ohio Education Promotes Racism and Restricting Equity, Again​​
• ​The State of Ohio assaults its children: The war on those least able to defend themselves
• When 'Heterodoxy' Is Orthodoxy
• Searching for Literacy: The Social and Intellectual Origins of Literacy Studies
  

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• Ohio Dept of Education and Workforce
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• The 74
• African American Policy Forum
• Axios Columbus
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• HEAL Together
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• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• We Believe
• Zinn Education Project

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• The Atlantic
• The New Yorker
• Toledo Blade
• USA Today
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