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What's gained, and lost, with a new, balanced curriculum?

By Jodi Daynard
July 17, 2005

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I've been feeling a little sorry for my favorite dead white males these days. A few weeks ago, I was walking along in New York's Central Park next to two young college students. One said to the other, ''I have to stay home and write a paper on Nathaniel Hawthorne." (Full article: 1058 words)

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