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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Richard Adams Education editor

Teachers’ union NEU warns of classroom culture wars

Mary Bousted
Mary Bousted, a joint leader of the union, said she had been ‘monstered’ by the rightwing media for suggesting history should not just be dead white men. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

A teachers’ union is forming a partnership with education experts to “critically interrogate” the government’s plans for a model history curriculum in England, as its leaders warned that culture wars continued to rage over what should be taught in classrooms.

Mary Bousted, a joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said it was joining with the Runnymede Trust and others to monitor the history curriculum changes the government has announced as part of its response to the Sewell report on race and ethnic disparities.

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