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...Krokodiloes are really a unique group,"said Jason M. Sobol, a member of the Kroks. "It'sbasically a professional singing group run byundergrads...
...Written by an undistinguished group of scholars, these essays on history, social studies, math, language and arts and science are meant to be a charter of Afrocentrist history for young black Americans. They have had little scrutiny in the mainstream press. But they are popular with bureaucrats like Thomas Sobol, the education commissioner in New York State -- people who are scared of alienating black voters or can't stand up to thugs like City College professor Leonard Jeffries. Their implications for American education are large, and mostly...
INTERVIEW Educator Thomas Sobol on the merits of multiculturalism...
...real question here isn't why Jeffries persists in insulting Jews or other whites, along with blacks who don't share his views. Bigots are bigots. What's curious is the determination with which educational administrators in New York City and state--like Harleston and Education Commissioner Thomas Sobol--continue to place Jeffries on search committees and key curricular revision panels...
...that is not the vision conveyed by many of the multiculturalists, those veterans of the '60s and their younger colleagues, who looked at the people ( arriving in their classrooms and noticed that many of them, in some cases nearly all of them, had no connection whatsoever with Europe. As Sobol himself has noted, "By the year 2000, 1 out of 3 children in New York public schools will be minority. In New York City, 1 out of 4 children under 10 has non- English-speaking immigrant parents. This is not the world of the 1950s...