It seems to me that all curricula should reflect diversity in all aspects
and not have diversity of literature offered as a segregated class (meaning
that the class content is segregated into its own category or special
class). Great literature is great literature and it comes from all groups.
Our challenge is to make certain that the richness that it offers is
deliberately part of the education that our students encounter and learn to
love. When we segregate information about diversity off into its own
separate class, I think that we send a subtle message that it somehow does
not belong with "the classics." That is a serious mistake.
Recommendation of books: How about Alice Walker, Amy Tan, and Willa
Cather? Ralph Ellison?
Peggy Weeks
<mdweeks@earthlink.net>
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From: Chris Nelson <cnelson@8j.net>
I would check out the total curriculum for the high school before coming
down too hard on one AP class. Sometimes the "diversity curriculum" is
in another grade level.
Julian Weissglass <weissgla@math.ucsb.edu> wrote:
I went to Open House at my son's high school last night. I met
excellent teachers who are doing a good job. However, as usual, I
found the English curriculum to be severely lacking, even shameful....
Sincerely,
Julian Weissglass
Director, National Coalition for Equity in Education
email:weissgla@math.ucsb.edu
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