Deculturalization & the Failure of the Common School Ideal
What is “Race”?
Combining cultural discrimination and religious intolerance with democratic beliefs.
Historically, an educational process used in schooling in the United States to destroy a people’s culture and replace it with the dominant Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture.
Systematically used to destroy the cultural heritage of :
Native Americans,
African Americans,
Mexican Americans,
Puerto Ricans, and
Immigrants from Asia, Ireland, Italy and Eastern Europe.
Literacy Across the Curriculum 