Today, students from every definable race and ethnic category study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school
classrooms, learning about something called segregation — as a vocabulary word
on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a
topic for the
debate team.
Editor's note: Once upon a time, political arguments over the content of science education focused
on a single
topic: evolution.While it would be wonderful to think that such
debates ended with the Scopes Monkey Trial, I live in Missouri... where some members of our legislature still think our science
classrooms are the proper places for ideological
debates.