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2018
Volume 113, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

This article details how English language arts teaching and a schooluniversity collaboration were censored by two different policies simultaneously: the adoption of scripted curriculum and restriction around teaching about racism.

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