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Ginetta Sagan, a longtime fighter for social justice, famously said, “Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor.” Lately, we’re witnessing a lot of complicity within Florida’s higher education system.

Through “new rules” that are nowhere codified and thus of dubious legality, the Florida Department of Education and the Board of Governors recently demanded the removal of four terms — diversity, equity, inclusion, and culture — from our university-based teacher education programs. While decades of educational research highlight that the ideas embodied in these terms are central to quality K-12 teaching, the far right sees them as threats to their hegemonic control and has sought to eliminate them from our educational spac

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