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Primary Source
of the Month
A laboratory class at the Tuskegee Institute, photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1902.
Courtesy, Library of Congress.
CONTENTS
"Inherently Unequal": The Access and Right to a Basic Education in the United States
Primary
Source of the Month
Teaching
Strategy
Colonial Williamsburg Teaching Resources
Teaching News
Quotation of the Month
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"Inherently Unequal":
The Access and Right to a Basic Education in the United States
Historian
Wilma King examines how race and ethnicity
have impacted accessibility to American
educational systems and the influence of
stereotypes on the intellectual growth and
development of students.
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Primary Source of the Month:
Tuskegee Institute Laboratory
This
month's primary source—a photograph
from the Tuskegee Institute—shows
students in a classroom lab. The Institute
was founded by a former slave and former
slaveholder, and officially opened on
July 4, 1881.
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Teaching
Strategy: An Education for All?
In
this lesson, students learn about education
for African Americans in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, compare modern
American education with that of previous
centuries, and consider the importance of
education in general.
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Colonial
Williamsburg Teaching Resources for Your
Classroom Colonial
Williamsburg offers a variety of quality
instructional materials dealing with 18th-century
life, including:
- Aesop's Fables Playing Cards
- Eighteenth-century writing implements
- Stories Under African Skies (audio tape or CD)
- A Day in the Life (instructional video series)
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More
Teaching
News
The Library of Congress American Memory Web site is an incredibly rich resource. If you have never spent time browsing through their vast resources, you really should give it a try! One of their many current online exhibits, “With and Even Hand,” focuses on the impact of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.
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Another
online resource related to this topic
is “In Pursuit of Freedom
& Equality: Kansas and the African
American Public School Experience, 1855–1955.”
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Quotation
of the Month
“I consider a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties, till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner . . . draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance.”
~ Joseph Addison
The Spectator, no.215, November 6, 1711 |
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