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Un-standardizing Curriculum: Multicultural Teaching in the Standards-based Classroomreviewed by Ramin Farahmandpur - 2006 Title: Un-standardizing Curriculum: Multicultural Teaching in the Standards-based Classroom Author(s): Christine Sleeter Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807746215, Pages: 224, Year: 2005 Search for book at Amazon.com We live inside government manufactured fears and uncertainties, when the rhetoric of war is used to silence opponents of the military invasion and occupation of Iraq; when hate-filled radio hosts, Fox News television pundits, and fundamentalist preachers join forces in slandering public intellectuals; and anti-war activists Ward Churchill, Cindy Sheehan, and Pennsylvania congressman John Murtha muster the courage to raise moral and ethical objections against the war in Iraq; when the Bush administration continues to violate international human rights treaties by operating secret CIA prisons (known as "black sites" often hidden in Soviet-era compounds in Eastern Europe) where "enemy combatants" are tortured; and when the National Security Agency is pointing its sophisticated arsenal of high-tech espionage devices on American citizens inside the nation's borders.
In public schools, students and teachers are frequently reprimanded or suspended for openly criticizing the Bush administrations domestic and foreign policy. One well-known example is that of Bretton... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Ramin Farahmandpur
Portland State University E-mail Author RAMIN FARAHMANDPUR is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy, Foundations and Administrative Studies at Portland State University. His interests include critical pedagogy and multicultural education. He is the coauthor of Teaching against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism: A Critical Pedagogy (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).
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