Media Coverage of
the ida B. wells Education Project
Local educators weigh in on state’s historic ethnic studies guide for high schools
California recently made history as one of the first states to approve a high school Ethnic Studies curriculum. Educator and IBWEP Board Member Laura Roberts was one of the lead organizers for Ethnic Studies on the ground in her CA School district. She was interviewed along with other educators about the need for Ethnic Studies in high schools. Read the interview here!
Activists Seed Public Schools with Black Liberation Curriculum
The Ida B. Wells Education Project was featured on the Black Agenda Radio podcast hosted by Black media legend Glen Ford. Ford and Lindsay discussed the work and perspective of IBWEP and our plans for teaching for Black liberation in schools. Check out the podcast episode here!
IBWEP in “6 ways to help students make sense of the capitol siege”
Ida B. Wells Education Project Director Peta Lindsay was recently quoted in this timely and important article in Education Week, “6 Ways to Help Students Make Sense of the Capitol Siege.”
The Uprising and Our Schools: Educators Speak Out
“We are all living and making this history.”
Rethinking Schools Magazine, Fall 2020
Ida B. Wells Education Project Director Peta Lindsay recently contributed thoughts on teaching for Black lives in the time of the George Floyd uprisings to the fall 2020 issue of Rethinking Schools Magazine, “The Uprising and Our Schools”. Read her writing, “We are all living and making this history” here.