Contentious Curricula
Subtitle: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: August 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780691091808
Subjects: Cultural studies; Curriculum planning & development; Pressure groups & lobbying; Social theory; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; Social Science; Education / Teaching; United States; Sociology; USA; Social movements; Curricula; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Education; Education / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Curriculum change; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Afrocentrism; Study and teaching
First sentence: IN 1988, the District of Columbia public school system found itself perched on the edge of a controversy that would bedevil it for the next ten years.