Showing posts with label Anti-Racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anti-Racism. Show all posts
Friday, February 19, 2016
More important than any other value: anti-racism
This survey of English teachers shows that To Kill a Mockingbird is far and away the most popular book assigned to 9th and 10th grade students. The most important lesson that teachers want to teach our children--more important than the horrors of totalitarianism (1984) for example--is that white Americans, as a rule, have been unfair to blacks.
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