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Article: Losing Our Language: How Multicultural Classroom Instruction Is Undermining Our Children's Ability to Read, Write, and Reason.
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- The Public Interest
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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If anyone ought to understand the unintended consequences of multicultural education, it is Ruth Sherman. The young and idealistic Sherman was assigned a third-grade class at Public School 75 in the Bushwick section of New York, a school with achievement scores so low it is on a list of the state's failing schools. Sherman gave among her first assignments a book titled Nappy Hair, the story of a young black girl with kinky hair. Highly recommended by teacher's colleges as a way to improve the self-image of black youngsters and to celebrate cultural diversity, Nappy Hair evokes the folksy teasing as well as the rhythms and idioms of African-American speech. "And she' got ...
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