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Monday, May 17, 2010

Stanley Fish Comments on the Arizona Law Banning Ethnic Studies in K-12

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Posted by The Weaker Party at 10:35 PM
Labels: civic virtue, communitarianism, Education, failed states, federalism, ideology, individualism
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