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Direct linkBolgatz, Jane – Social Studies, 2005
"American history," writer James Baldwin told a group of teachers in 1963, "is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it" (1963/1996, 227). Children, Baldwin argued, have "the right and necessity to examine everything." In particular, they need to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Race, Social Studies, Elementary School Students
