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Books Banned in Tuscon Including Rethinking School’s “Rethinking Columbus” « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

Books Banned in Tuscon Including Rethinking School’s “Rethinking Columbus” « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!:

Books Banned in Tuscon Including Rethinking School’s “Rethinking Columbus”

Who’s afraid of “The Tempest”?

Arizona’s ban on ethnic studies proscribes Mexican-American history, local authors, even Shakespeare

By Jeff Biggers Friday, Jan 13, 2012 Salon

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/13/whos_afraid_of_the_tempest/singleton/

As part of the state-mandated termination of its ethnic studies program, the Tucson Unified School District released an initial list of books to be banned from its schools today. According to district spokeperson Cara