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Article: Aiming for the Middle; A new International Baccalaureate program is raising the game in middle school
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- The Washington Post
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- November 4, 2007
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The letter published in the Reston Connection four years ago said
the program at Langston Hughes Middle School promoted "socialism,
disarmament, radical environmentalism, and moral relativism, while
attempting to undermine Christian religious values and national
sovereignty."
The Middle Years Program, part of the International Baccalaureate
system, was just getting started at Langston Hughes, and it wasn't
the first time an IB program had been slapped around in Fairfax
County. W.T. Woodson High School had thrown out its IB courses in
1999, in part because some parents and teachers thought they were
too global and played down American history. Syndicated columnist
Thomas Sowell reported in ...