ETST 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Claude Steele, Making Of America, Bruce Bawer
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The american educator john dewey argued that students did not fail; rather, schools failed students. In 1972, the national education association released a study (cid:522)the invisible minority(cid:523)(cid:523) which concluded: There is (cid:522)something inherent(cid:523) in u. s. public schools (cid:522)the impedes the education of the mexican. American child-that, indeed, drives him to drop out;(cid:523) that ingrains in him a negative self-image. An anti-poverty activist, he promotes jobs and the arts as antidotes to street gangs and community violence. Founded tia chucha"s centro cultural in the san fernando valley, ca. Ramon gutierrez article, (cid:522)ethnic studies(cid:523) (cid:522)minority students demanded that the curriculum reflect their presence(cid:523) and that colleges and universities provide a (cid:522)relevant education(cid:523) by hiring minority faculty. In the debate over the meaning of america"s past, ethnic studies scholarship analyzes social relations from the bottom up, from the point of view of the powerless or marginalized. The making of asian america a history erika lee. Mexicans in the making of america neil foley.