Teaching Kids About Slavery: Picture Books Struggle With The Task
The shelves and desks at Teaching For Change in Washington, D.C., are full of picture books. For years, the nonprofit, which advocates for a more inclusive curriculum in public schools, has been keeping track of what it considers to be some of the best — and worst — multicultural children's books out there.
Allyson Criner Brown, Teaching for Change's associate director, says they keep the bad ones because "there's so much to learn from them."
A Birthday Cake for George Washington was just put on the bad shelf.
Over the weekend, the publisher Scholastic announced it would stop distributing the children's picture book after public outcry.
Even though it was created by a multicultural team, the book came under heavy criticism for whitewashing the history of slavery. Just a few months ago, another children's book, A Fine Dessert, drew similar criticism.
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Allyson Criner Brown, Teaching for Change's associate director, says they keep the bad ones because "there's so much to learn from them."
A Birthday Cake for George Washington was just put on the bad shelf.
Over the weekend, the publisher Scholastic announced it would stop distributing the children's picture book after public outcry.
Even though it was created by a multicultural team, the book came under heavy criticism for whitewashing the history of slavery. Just a few months ago, another children's book, A Fine Dessert, drew similar criticism.
READ MORE: http://www.npr.org/2016/01/22/463977451/co...
More brainwashing of our people to keep them mentally enslaved. Wow.