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This week’s R&D from Prepd covers state legislative battles over critical race theory (CRT).  The early months of 2022 have seen conservative states such as Texas, Florida, and Kentucky, among others, pass bills to counteract the alleged teaching of CRT in classrooms and universities.  Florida recently rejected more than 40 mathematics textbooks for K-12 students because their alleged CRT content.  Critics argue that the bills constitute an assault on the teaching profession, hinder the viewpoints that students can receive or argue in the classroom, and that anti-CRT forces are misinterpreting the theory and its application to score political points.