Curriculum and Protest

"History of slavery in NY 'can't be ignored' BY MARTIN C. EVANS STAFF WRITER September 13, 2005 For years, Mary K. Carter felt that New York's two-century history as a slave state was treated as an embarrassing secret, mostly ignored in school curriculums. "Many people are surprised when you talk about slavery's existence in New York," said Carter, a Freeport resident and retired middle-school teacher in the Rockville Centre school district. "They're surprised because it's taught as something that happened in the South." So when the education department at Hofstra University began working on a curriculum to help school children understand how the enslavement of Africans helped build New York's wealth and power, she joined the team. That curriculum has been named this year's "exemplary social studies program by the nation's largest association of social studies teachers." More at "Newsday" click on link "Curriculum and Protest" at top.