[Occupymendocino] essay competition

[Linda Jupiter]

Sounds like a great project.
Thanks for doing it.
Linda

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> From: "John" <john at cypresshouse.com>
> Subject: [Occupymendocino] Why an essay competition?
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> According to the Southern Poverty Law Center:
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> So much of our nation's history - and our present - is rooted in the
> institution of slavery.
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> Yet, America's schools are woefully unprepared to teach children about
> American slavery and all of the history related to it. That's what the
> Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance project discovered after a
> <http://links.mp2203.com/a/585/click/5970448/742191085/_d18d72f1b2aab0c1e515
> f3e68938d9c81cc34b80/9dcec2179306994bde2527e059c7c7165bd36c59>  yearlong
> investigation that included surveys of more than 1,000 high school seniors,
> an examination of state standards and textbooks, and questionnaires to more
> than 1,700 social studies teachers.
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> Shockingly, just 8 percent of high school seniors could identify slavery as
> the central cause of the Civil War. Most didn't know that the 13th Amendment
> formally ended slavery.
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> https://www.splcenter.org/
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