New York State Center for Educational Civil Discourse

Resources for the Education Community to Combat Antisemitism

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Overview

Over the past year, the Governor’s Executive Chamber convened working groups focused on the P-12 issues and higher education.

The P-12 and Higher Education working groups provided expertise, support, and guidance across various aspects of the New York State Center for Educational Civil Discourse's work, focused on the subject matter of their working group. The groups reviewed and analyzed a wide range of scholarly materials, organizational best practices, and other educational policies.

In doing so, the groups have cultivated a substantive, but not exhaustive, overview and list of resources and opportunities for educators and administrators to utilize as they seek to combat antisemitism and other forms of hate in primary, secondary, and postsecondary education institutions.

P-12 Student

The New York State Center for Educational Civil Discourse strives to combat hate in P-12 public education by providing schoolteachers and administrators access to materials that can help combat hatred and facilitate civil discourse in an inclusive learning environment.

The materials that are included in the resource collection below address the history of antisemitism and the Holocaust. they span an array of primary and secondary sources and include school lesson plans, multimedia resources, and opportunities for onsite learning at museums and other cultural institutions.

Resources

Who are the Jews?

Pre-Holocaust Jewish Life in the Modern Era

Rise of Modern Antisemitism

The Holocaust

Antisemitism after the Holocaust

Additional Support

Higher Education

The New York State Center for Educational Civil Discourse strives to combat hate in higher education by helping colleges and universities achieve their core mission, which is to create an inclusive learning environment that fosters civil discourse and enables students to discuss challenging and, at times, difficult ideas. In pursuit of this goal, the Center encourages honest discussion of such crucial topics as:

  • how to define the relationship between educational inclusivity and educational
    pluralism
  • how to determine the line between free speech, civil discourse, and harassing
    speech
  • how decide the merits and drawbacks of institutional neutrality
  • how to define both the rights and responsibilities of faculty regarding academic
    freedom
  • how to identify time, place, manner guidelines for campus protests

In the effort to foster civil discourse and thereby combat antisemitism and other forms of hate on college campuses, The Center for Educational Civil Discourse has identified a range of educational and legal approaches both of which are discussed in the links below.

Educational methods

Legal methods

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