Odd analogy, I know. But hear me out. creative commons licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Evelyn Saenz Today the (grade) 3-5 teachers in my district met to look at available Math Curricula to adopt. We looked at 5 or 6 to begin with and narrowed it down to 2. We used the Math Toolkit (CCSS) in order to narrow our selection down. We focused on some of the basics - quality over bells and whistles. We were then left with 2 programs. Neither one was all that great.

Hear from Scholar Allison Perlman who will present her talk, "Contextualizing Media Controversies: Censorship, Bias, and Distortion in Historical Perspective," discussing how to identify and unpack me...