August 5, 2021
Understanding the Attacks on Teaching
This brief (v8.5.2021) is available at kevinkumashiro.com/attacksonteaching
Endorsed by the following education, legal, and civil rights organizations and institutions:
- = Background Brief Organizers
- African American Policy Forum
- California Alliance of Researchers for Equity in Education
- Chicagoland Researchers and Advocates for Transformative Justice
- Education Deans for Justice and Equity
- Hawai‘i Scholars for Education and Social Justice
- National Education Association
- National Education Policy Center
- Pennsylvania Education Scholars
A Queer Endeavor
American Association for Teaching and Curriculum
American Association of University Professors
American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
American Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) Deans of Schools of Education
Antioch University
Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC)
Arch of Self
Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE)
Aruna Global South
Asian American Education Project
Asian Americans United
Badass Teachers Association
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Black & Latino Policy Institute
Black Lives Matter at School
Black Lives Matter at School – Iowa
BUENO Center for Multicultural Education
California Campus Compact
California Chapter, National Association for Multicultural Education (CA-NAME)
California Council on Teacher Education
California Faculty Association
Center for Asian American Studies, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Center for Culturally Responsive Practices
Center for Education & Civil Rights, Pennsylvania State University
Center for Education, University of La Verne
Center for Humanities & the Arts, University of Colorado-Boulder
Center for Multicultural Education, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, College of Education
Center for Public Education and Community Engagement
Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University
Cesar Chavez Peace and Justice of Denver
Citizens for Global Solutions Minnesota
Citizens for Public Schools
Clark County Education Association Social Justice Caucus
Coalition for a Diverse Harvard
Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF)
Coalition for Racial Equity in the Arts + Education (crea+e)
Coalition for the People’s Agenda, Education Committee, Louisville, KY
Code Switch: Restorative Justice for Girls of Color
College of Education, Minnesota State University-Mankato
College of Education, Western Oregon University
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado-Denver
Concerned Organization for Quality Education of Black & Brown Students (COQEBS)
Connecticut Human Rights Partnership
COR Mansfield
Critical Studies Working Group, College of Education, Auburn University
CUNY Brooklyn College
Dear JCPS (Jefferson County Public Schools), Louisville, KY
Delaware Educators for Justice and Change (DEJC)
Densho
Department of Educational Studies, Colgate University
Department of Educational Studies, Swarthmore College
Division of Education, Regis University
Education Council Consortium
Education for Liberation Minnesota
Faculty and Staff of the School of Education, Virginia Commonwealth University
Families for Real Equity in Education (FREE)
Family Voices NJ
Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality
Georgia Chapter, National Association for Multicultural Education (GA NAME)
Graduate School of Education, Touro University California
Guilford, CT Anti-Bias Anti-Racist Alliance
Hiatt Center for Urban Education, Clark University
Human Rights Educators USA
Illinois Chapter, National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME Illinois)
Illinois Families for Public Schools
Immigrant History Initiative
In the Public Interest
Initiative for Race Research and Justice, Vanderbilt University
Inland Empire Educators for Social Justice (IEESJ)
Institute for Teaching Diversity and Social Justice
Kalmanovitz School of Education, Saint Mary’s College of California
Kamāwaelualani Corp.
Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
LaFetra College of Education, University of La Verne
Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory (LatCrit)
Men Allied for Leadership Empowerment
NAACP, California Hawaii State Conference
NAACP, Kentucky State Conference
National Center for Urban Education (NCUE), Illinois State University
National Center for Youth Law
National Latina/o Education Research and Policy
National Network for Educational Renewal
Network for Public Education Action
New Bedford Coalition to Save Our Schools
New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (NYACTE)
Next Gen United: The Black Initiative
No Racism in Schools #1865
Northside Coalition of Jacksonville
NYCLU (New York Civil Liberties Union) Education Policy Center
NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools
Oakland Urban Teacher Residency Project, Mills College
One Grandview
Oregon Teacher Pathway Program
Partnership for the Future of Learning
Paulo Freire Democratic Project
Portland State University American Association of University Professors (PSU-AAUP)
R.E.A.L. Youth Program
Radical Pedagogy Institute
Radical STEMM Educators of the Bay Area
Rethinking Schools
San Francisco Association for Bilingual Education
Save Our Schools Kentucky
School of Education and Counseling Psychology, Santa Clara University
School of Education and Human Development, University of Colorado-Denver
School of Education, Loyola Marymount University
School of Education, SUNY Cortland
School of Education, Syracuse University
School of Education, University of Colorado-Boulder
Showing Up for Racial Justice Rhode Island (SURJ-RI)
South Milwaukee Education Association
Teach About Women
Teachers 4 Social Justice
Teaching for Change
Texas Faculty Association
The New 3Rs
To Be Heard Foundation
TODOS: Mathematics for ALL
Towards an Anti-Racist North Kingstown (TANK)
UCLA Center X
University and College Consortium for Human Rights Education
Virginia Chapter, National Association for Multicultural Education (VANAME)
Writers for Democratic Action
Xicanx Institute for Teaching & Organizing (XITO)
YURI Education Project
Zinn Education Project