What do we do when having diverse literature in our classrooms backfires?
I think that we all agree that having multicultural literature in the classroom is important; but, I think we all can also agree that literature on some topics/cultures may bring about questions & concerns by not only the students, but other teachers, parents and maybe even ourselves.
I wouldn't have thought that Nappy Hair would have provoked such a dramatic outburst by parents of students the author of the book says Nappy Hair was intended for.
Here's a link to read more on what happened:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/frompost/dec98/hair3.htm
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Ah...what a gold mine your site is/is becoming! I checked out all the links - thanks for finding them!
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