students in the New Jersey school system. Unfortunately, that means that there will likely be less classroom discussion of the omissions and half-truths in the book than there would be if it had been one of the more formal elements of the curriculum.
In a very real sense, African-American students do not fail in their attempt to grasp the Eurocentric curriculum, such a curriculum fails them. An important principle of noted education philosopher John Dewey was that the ideal school functions as a form of community life in which students are not merel
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