N.J. Sending Teachers to Visit Trans-Atlantic Slave Sites to Teach Black History in Public Schools
by Melanie Burney
November 8, 2019
N.J. sending teachers to visit trans-Atlantic slave sites to teach black history in public schools
VERNON OGRODNEK / FOR THE INQUIRER
New Jersey public school teachers will get to travel to trans-Atlantic sites associated with the slave trade to learn how to better teach black history — not just in February but year-round — to comply with a decades-old state mandate.
The initiative was announced Friday as a new program under the state’s Amistad law, which requires all public schools to teach African American history. The mandate was established under a 2002 law signed by then-Gov. Jim McGreevey but has not been widely implemented.
Ed Richardson, New Jersey Education Association executive director, speaks alongside Jacqui Greadington, who proposed sending teachers to visit trans-Atlantic sites associated with the slave trade, during the NJEA convention in Atlantic City on Friday, Nov. 8.
It was the brainchild of Jacqui Greadington, a retired East Orange music teacher turned activist who wants to change how black history is taught. She got the idea after a visit to Ghana that she said "changed my life forever.”
“There are people who have no clue about the value of the African American story,” Greadington said.
by Melanie Burney
November 8, 2019
N.J. sending teachers to visit trans-Atlantic slave sites to teach black history in public schools
VERNON OGRODNEK / FOR THE INQUIRER
New Jersey public school teachers will get to travel to trans-Atlantic sites associated with the slave trade to learn how to better teach black history — not just in February but year-round — to comply with a decades-old state mandate.
The initiative was announced Friday as a new program under the state’s Amistad law, which requires all public schools to teach African American history. The mandate was established under a 2002 law signed by then-Gov. Jim McGreevey but has not been widely implemented.
Ed Richardson, New Jersey Education Association executive director, speaks alongside Jacqui Greadington, who proposed sending teachers to visit trans-Atlantic sites associated with the slave trade, during the NJEA convention in Atlantic City on Friday, Nov. 8.
It was the brainchild of Jacqui Greadington, a retired East Orange music teacher turned activist who wants to change how black history is taught. She got the idea after a visit to Ghana that she said "changed my life forever.”
“There are people who have no clue about the value of the African American story,” Greadington said.
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