Multicultural Curriculum Needed for Students to Connect
12/12/11
Larry Miller Published in OnMilwaukee.com
Sunday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Crossroads section ran a thoughtful article (http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/education-must-be-relevant-ml3b0gu-135377658.html) about schools’ failures in educating African-American youth. The author, Tamiko Jordan-Obregon of the Milwaukee Center for Leadership Development, addresses the fact that many African-American youth do not connect with curriculum in our schools.
Jordan-Obregon quotes Carter G Woodson about the need for schools to be relevant. She correctly describes how many schools focus on what I call “white presidents’” history and leave African-American history to only
