Virtual Conversation: Critical Race Theory in Context

City Club of Boise Virtual Conversation:

Critical Race Theory in Context: Politics in American Schools

Join us for a chance to learn more about the controversy surrounding Critical Race Theory (CRT). This once esoteric academic legal theory is now making headlines, affecting funding for public schools and universities, shaping the composition of local school boards and curricula, and impacting state and local elections.

This panel will explore important questions about the emerging debate over CRT: what CRT is, what parents are concerned about, what worries critics most, and how and why CRT became a political hot topic.

Panelists:

Dr. Kevin Bruyneel, Professor of Politics at Babson College

Dr. Adam Laats, Professor of Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership at Binghamton University-SUNY

Emma Pettit, senior reporter at the The Chronicle of Higher Education

This Virtual Conversation will be moderated by Shaakirrah Sanders, Law Professor at the University of Idaho, on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. MT.

City Club thanks our Premier Sponsor, Northwest Nazarene University and the NNU College of Business, our Annual Sponsor University of Idaho, Boise, and the 2021 Forum Series sponsors: AARP of Idaho, Bank of Idaho, Clima-Tech Corporation, Echelon Group, Micron, PacificSource Health Plans, Small Mine Development, and St. Luke's. We are pleased to welcome university students to attend our events thanks to our University partners Boise State University and Northwest Nazarene University. Our media partners include Boise State Public Radio, 670 KBOI, Idaho Public Television and the Idaho Statesman. This program is made possible in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council, the state-based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

If you have any questions, call 208-364-4614 and staff can assist you.