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7 thoughts on “Tucson Schools Ban Shakespeare and “Rethinking Columbus””

1. Debbie Reese January 15, 2012 / 1:14 pm

   See my blog post about it. I list essays by Native authors that are in RETHINKING COLUMBUS. Students in that program outperformed students who were not in the program. Details:
   http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2012/01/teaching-critical-thinking-in-arizona.html
2. ilpc January 15, 2012 / 1:18 pm

   Thanks for the link, Debbie.
3. Debbie Reese January 15, 2012 / 4:31 pm

   I want to see the ruling by Judge A. Wallace Tashima. How do I find it? He determined (If I understand it all correctly) that two students have standing in federal court, but their teachers do not. The case is about First Amendment rights and the classes/curriculum.
4. Debbie Reese January 16, 2012 / 9:12 am

   I found the court document of the hearing and linked to it at my blog. I want to see the exhibits referenced in the document and am still trying to find them. I also linked to the state bill that effectively shut down the program. And, I’ve embedded a 30 minute video of students talking about the program.

   The board determined that a lot of the books were not age-appropriate; a lot of those not-age-appropriate books, the board determined, belong in college classes, not high school classes. Course, I wonder if they’ll also box up the books in their AP classes?
5. rethinkingschoolsblog January 16, 2012 / 9:32 am

   Thanks for sharing this news. See our blog post about it. http://rethinkingschoolsblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/rethinking-columbus-banned-in-tucson/
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