In abstract A brand new regulation will encourage California college districts to work with native Native American tribes to develop historical past classes for college students. For too lengthy, college students and tribal leaders say, faculties have lacked an in-depth and correct historical past curriculum that addresses their tradition. Sixteen-year-old […]
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W.E.B. Du Bois warned us in 1935 that turning Black kids over to white America for his or her each day schooling risked making them “doormats to be spit and trampled upon and lied to by ignorant social climbers whose sole declare to superiority is the power to kick ‘niggers’ […]
The Illimitable Freedom of the Human ThoughtsThomas Jefferson’s Concept of a Collegeby Andrew O’ShaughnessyCollege of Virginia, 368 pp., $34.95 Reflecting on a day spent exploring Versailles and eating with French aristocrats in 1778, John Adams concluded that the folks of France had been just too decadent for self-government. “The foundations […]