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A 15 page research paper that consists of three 5-page subsections. The first section has to do Carter G. Woodson's 1933 text on African American education, The Mis-Education of the Negro. The second section addresses the failed educational reforms that were implemented in Rochester, New York, in the 1980s and early 1990s. The final section deals mainly with the constructivist educational philosophy of John Dewey. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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in education were first established by Carter G. Woodson" (p. 423). In 1933, Woodson , an African American educator with four decades of experience, authored a small volume, The Mis-Education
of the Negro, in which he exposed the deplorable state of black education in the United States. In so doing, he laid the groundwork for the interest in black ancestral
roots and history that began in the 1960s (Levine, 2000). Because of the movement begun by Woodsons work, reforms regarding black history were woven into educational initiatives during the past
several decades (Levine, 2000). Woodsons achievements are widely acknowledged, so much so that he is referred to as the "Father of Negro Education" (Levine, 2000, p. 5). In his
text, Woodson addresses a broad range of topics, which includes black colleges, vocational education, educational politics and the manner in which African Americans were portrayed by white historians (Levine, 2000).
His principal thesis is that, while blacks were technically free, whites continued to exploit African Americans by controlling their ideas and their collective identity (Levine, 2000). Woodson writes, "If
you can control a mans thinking you do not have to worry about his action...If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel
him to accept an inferior status" (1998, p. 84). Having African Americans accept their inferior status in American society was not simply a matter of racial bigotry, although it
did serve that purpose, it was also political and economic. The increasingly industrialized US society still required a low-skilled, low-paid workforce to do manual labor. By under-educating black Americans, while
indoctrinating them to their status in American culture, the US had that work force. During the latter part of the nineteenth and beginning decades of the twentieth century, the US
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