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...Bunting Institute has awarded its first Radcliffe Junior Faculty Fellowships to Associate Professor of Government Bonnie Honig and Assistant Professor of Anthropology Mary M. Steedly...
...Honig is a contemporary theory specialist who has been at Harvard for six years. She told The Crimson That she will use her time at the Bunting to write a book about how "fantasies about home as a place free of conflict affect our politics...
Examples of the phenomenon, Honig said, include the debate about multiculturalism in education, as well as the conflict between nationalism and cosmopolitanism...
Even so, there was a sense of relief that he was planning something. The blueprint, says California education superintendent Bill Honig, "is comprehensive, long-term and hits the important issues." Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, calls it "a historic turning point in American education" and the boldest education initiative ever to come from the White House. If not a turning point, America 2000 is at least a talking point that forces attention on one of the country's most serious problems. After his lackluster domestic performance to date, Bush intends to push broad educational changes through...
...what most rankles among politicians, parents and scholars is the angry tone of much revisionist rhetoric. Reformers who want to vilify Christopher Columbus because, they say, he slaughtered Native Americans may miss larger truths. "We don't study the Greeks because they had slaves and mistreated women," points out Honig. "Our job in education is to put ideals before kids." But the questions are, Whose ideals? and How should they be portrayed? -- all of which promises to inspire clashes in American classrooms for the foreseeable future...