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...Finn is perhaps the most famous of these. It is likely to be the first we read. And, while many of its aforementioned companions have since been let off the hook, parents and educators have continued to dispute Huckleberry Finn’s appropriateness for elementary and high school curricula. Critics may no longer find it as “trashy and vicious” as the Concord Library Committee so notoriously did (and the New York Times reported) in 1885, but many still echo the concerns about racism the NAACP first presented in the 1950s—particularly with...
...other hand, has a close if prickly rapport with the major angels and demons of the universe, and two symmetrical forearm tattoos that, when pressed together, create howling wind and various other supernatural phenomena. (This, too, is never fully explained in either the movie or most Sunday school curricula, but we assume it’s one of the finer points of the Catholic catechism...
...example, if one looks at the Harvard College Curricular Review and the discourse leading up to it there has been little to no discussion about making the courses and the curricula of African and African-American studies central to every student’s experience at this university. Ironically, Woodson received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard. He was the second African-American to receive a Ph.D. from this University, and one of the few black Ph.Ds of his time. For that, and his work following his time here, there is no marker of it here on this campus...
...study groups with the chosen fellows will begin on Tuesday, February 27. Each fellow will be assigned six student liaisons, who will help to formulate study group curricula and introduce the fellow to campus life. Students have until Saturday to apply to the liaison position...
...wants to make any child feel excluded or alienated from his or her peers. But, it seems that instead of cutting Christmas and other seemingly harmless celebrations out of school curricula to the point of absurdity, it would be more beneficial to encourage education about different cultural traditions. The benefits of diversity can only be felt when people are allowed to share their beliefs and backgrounds—not when they are being silenced...