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Whose America? - Culture Wars in the Public Schools (Paperback, New Ed)
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Whose America? - Culture Wars in the Public Schools (Paperback, New Ed)
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What do America's children learn about American history, American
values, and human decency? Who decides? In this absorbing book,
Jonathan Zimmerman tells the dramatic story of conflict,
compromise, and more conflict over the teaching of history and
morality in twentieth-century America. In history, whose stories
are told, and how? As Zimmerman reveals, multiculturalism began
long ago. Starting in the 1920s, various immigrant groups-the
Irish, the Germans, the Italians, even the newly arrived Eastern
European Jews-urged school systems and textbook publishers to
include their stories in the teaching of American history. The
civil rights movement of the 1960s and '70s brought similar
criticism of the white version of American history, and in the end,
textbooks and curricula have offered a more inclusive account of
American progress in freedom and justice. But moral and religious
education, Zimmerman argues, will remain on much thornier ground.
In battles over school prayer or sex education, each side argues
from such deeply held beliefs that they rarely understand one
another's reasoning, let alone find a middle ground for compromise.
Here there have been no resolutions to calm the teaching of
history. All the same, Zimmerman argues, the strong American
tradition of pluralism has softened the edges of the most rigorous
moral and religious absolutism.
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