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Dangerous Knowledge: Dr. Curtis Acosta Discusses the Assault on Mexican American Studies in Tucson

Dangerous Knowledge: Dr. Curtis Acosta Discusses the Assault on Mexican American Studies in Tucson

FromSpeak Out with Tim Wise


Dangerous Knowledge: Dr. Curtis Acosta Discusses the Assault on Mexican American Studies in Tucson

FromSpeak Out with Tim Wise

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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Oct 31, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Imagine a high school program whose students are 5 times more likely than their counterparts to go to college, and only 1/20th as likely to drop out. Now imagine lawmakers banning that program and attacking its leaders as “un-American.” As Dr. Curtis Acosta explains on this week’s Speak Out With Tim Wise, that’s what happened when Arizona eliminated Tucson’s Mexican American Studies Program. But now a federal court has ruled the ban unconstitutional, giving new hope to progressive and transformative educators across the nation. On this episode Wise and Acosta will discuss the program and the effect it had on students, the racist attacks leveled against it, and the future of radical educational reform in Arizona and the nation.
Released:
Oct 31, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

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Speak Out with Tim Wise is an informative and entertaining podcast aimed at promoting multiracial democracy and justice in dangerous times. The show features the biting, factual, and humorous commentary of its host, alongside dialogue with some of the nation's leading scholars, artists and activists, as well as grassroots community leaders whose voices are often ignored in the dominant media.