{"id":509,"date":"2012-10-06T21:24:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T21:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=509"},"modified":"2012-10-06T21:24:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T21:24:30","slug":"my-new-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"My New Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happened to catch a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/program\/307904-1\">Jonathan Kozol<\/a> on CSPAN this afternoon. \u00a0He was talking about his new book <em>Fire in the Ashes<\/em>. I was somewhat surprised to learn this his book <em>Savage Inequalities<\/em> had been banned in Tucson, Arizona, along with lots of other subversive literary works like Walden and The Tempest. \u00a0(Really, Shakespeare?) You can view a copy of the full list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstaco.com\/2012\/01\/31\/a-copy-of-tucsons-banned-book-list\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The banned books were part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/01\/11\/us\/arizona-mexican-american-studies\">larger ban on ethnic studies<\/a> enacted by the Tucson School Board in January of this year. \u00a0They did so under threat of losing 10% of their state funding for breaking a state law that forbids &#8220;any ethnic studies classes that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, promote resentment toward a race or class of people, are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.&#8221; While auditors did not find evidence of this sedition, but it seems that in the charged atmosphere of Arizona where immigration is a divisive issue, just having a group of hispanic students gather to talk about their history and their families is enough to scare some state legislators.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Lens video <a href=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/video\/2214470420\/\">Precious Knowledge<\/a> is worth a view. The students are experiencing higher achievement as they are drawn into courses where they can find themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I may make my next 30 day challenge to start working on the banned books list as I have not read much latino literature and it&#8217;s time to get back to Thoreau and Kozol and Shakespeare as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened to catch a bit of Jonathan Kozol on CSPAN this afternoon. \u00a0He was talking about his new book Fire in the Ashes. I was somewhat surprised to learn this his book Savage Inequalities had been banned in Tucson, Arizona, along with lots of other subversive literary works like Walden and The Tempest. \u00a0(Really, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=509\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My New Reading List<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,54,177],"tags":[207,208,209],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-reading","category-school-reform","tag-banned-books","tag-kozol","tag-tucson"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-8d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}