FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Jessica Lander’s <i>Making Americans</i>
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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Jessica Lander’s Making Americans

2024 recipient of the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language given by the National Council of Teachers of English   Making Americans is a landmark work that weaves captivating stories about the past, present, and personal into an inspiring vision for how America can educate immigrant students. Setting

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Jessica Lander’s Making Americans

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Eve L. Ewing’s <i>Original Sins</i>
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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Eve L. Ewing’s Original Sins

In Original Sins, University of Chicago professor Eve L. Ewing demonstrates that it’s in the DNA of American schools to serve as an effective and under acknowledged mechanism maintaining inequality in this country today. Ewing makes the case that we need a profound reevaluation of what schools are supposed to do, and for whom. This

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Eve L. Ewing’s Original Sins

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from John Sayles’s <i>To Save the Man</i>
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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from John Sayles’s To Save the Man

One of America’s greatest storytellers sheds light on an American tragedy: the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the ‘cultural genocide’ experienced by the Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. In September of 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle School, a military-style boarding school for Indians in Pennsylvania, founded and run by

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from John Sayles’s To Save the Man

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