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Podcast: What Next | Daily News and Analysis
Episode: Best of 2023 | He Couldn’t Teach ‘Slavery Was Wrong.’ So He Quit.
Description: As the What Next team catches its breath at the end of summer, we’re revisiting some of the biggest stories of the year. This story originally ran on April 17. What Next will resume regular programming next week.Iowa was one of the first states in the country to pass legislation against teaching that the United States is systemically racist — an idea some equate with “critical race theory.” But when one social studies teacher asked how he could teach U.S. history without running afoul of the new law, he didn’t get any clarity —...