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Second Workshop series in project areas slated for Nov. 30-Dec. 6 From Chronteto staff reports Parents will have another opportunity to question education experts in the city-county system during the second series of seminars sponsored by the superintendent appointed Community Human Relations/Cultural Diversity Com mittee (CHR/CDC). Beginning Nov. 30, the commit tee will sponsor workshops in the city's four housing project communi ties to allow parents to speak to con cerns they identified in the first series of meetings in September. Tracking students in non-col lege preparatory classes, drop-out prevention, communication and cooperation between teachers, par ents and administrators, and sub stance abuse were some major areas of concern in the first workshop series. The second series is scheduled as follows: Nov. 30, Kimberley Park Community Center, 6-8 p.m.; Dec. 1, Happy Hill Gardens Com munity Center, 9-11 a.m.; Dec. 4, Piedmont Park Community Center, 9-11 a.m.; and Dec. 6, Cleveland Avenue Homes Community Center, 9-11 a.m. Central office personnel, Superintendent Larry D. Coble, school board member Beaufort Bai ley and others will be available for questions and comments on aca demic concerns, student services, communication/cooperation and to give a progress report on the sys tem's accomplishments since the first workshop series. Palmer Friende, the executive assistant to the superintendent, is Coordinating the workshops. Lee Faye Mack and Delores Smith are co-chairs of the CHR/CDC. Biased, prejudiced materials still exist in nation's classrooms By TONYA V. SMITH Chronicte Staff Writer Remember the "Dick and Jane" readers where the two were por trayed as blond, blue-eyed Cau casians? While many of today's stu dents learn about people who are more representative of America's multicultural society in their school books, prejudiced and biased views are still prevalent in teaching mate rials. In 1965, the Council on Inter Americans," Ms. Russian said. "We're not asking that history be rewritten, but that the interpretation on American history include the perspectives of all involved in that event." The first books published in response to the problem of textbook the 1970s. It was called the "color me brown" concept, and the books looked as if an illustrator went through the pages coloring an occa sional child or family brown in an said. Pressure has been put on a few companies Who have responded by either devoting a column out of a 550-page history book to the wom en's suffrage movement or by com pletely deleting minorities' contri butions to the establishment of North Carolina. Teachers, local systems and state entities must be responsible for providing supplementary infor mation that will give a complete and accurate picture of America's past, present and future society, Ms. racial Books for Children (CIBQ was organized out of a belief that children should be nur-~ tured in a bias free environment in order for them to foster positive self-images and be open to peo ple of other races A|vl /ttllf tSYsu vttil Characters in the majority of ? children's books were white* as were the writers and publishers of the literature. CIBC launched an anti-racism battle, linking racism with other forms of bias/ Organizations which advocate eliminating biased and prejudiced materials from the classroom say teachers must supplement their lesson plans with information about persons from j/ill races and & cultures. fj/ Russian said. How do you determine if, for example, a histo ry book contains biased informa tion that must be supplemented? If women are only described as barefoot and pregnant, if Native Ameri cans?a?por trayed as war riors, Afro Americans as slaves and ghetto dwellers, Asian Americans- as railroad workers and inhabitants of "Chinatowns," Latino Ameri cans as migrants and union such as, sexism, ageism and handi capism. The council established in 1975 the Racism and Sexism Resource Center for Educators, which develops and circulates teaching and training materials designed to reduce bias in school and society. The CIBC also publish es a catalog of sexually and racially integrated filmstrips, tapes, video cassettes, textbooks and work books. Because of the CIBC and other groups and individuals putting pres sure on publishing companies and school systems, the complexion of children's books have changed, said Patricia Russian, field worker and staff associate with the Miami Desegregation Assistance Center at the University of Miami School of Education. Ms^ Russian's specialty is educating parents and teachers on what she calls a "sex-fair, multicul attempt to integrate the publication. Seventy-five percent of chil dren's class work and 90 percent of their homework focuses on text books, according to "Fair Text books: A Resource Guide," pub lished in 1979 by the U.S. Commis sion on Civil Rights. The report is an important one, said Ms. Russian, because it represents the thought and action-provoking studies the commission did prior to the Reagan Administration. "Textbooks are intended not only to teach facts, but also to influ ence values and behavior," accord ing to the study. "... Values and attitudes concerning the race, eth nicity, gender, social class, age or physical appearance of people may be altered by the presence of subtle distortions as well as gross stereo types in children's textbooks." Today's inclusion of minorities, activists. If the elderly image is one of dependence and incompetence, and if the contributions of Ameri ca's working class are ignored, the textbook needs help, Ms. Russian said, in representing a sex-fair, mul ticultural society. SAW IT IN THE CHRONICLE! NOTICE CLEARANCE GO . > > DOWN TO THE BARB WALLS! OA% r7A?/o iSl to ? \j yrr ON OUR ENTIRE INVENTORY OF Men's, Women's & Children's Clothing & Sneakers NIKE, REEBOK, ADIDAS, AVIA, ETONIC, CONVERSE, BROOKS, FILA & MANY, MANY MORE Limited Store Hours: Thurs. 12-6, Fri. 12-6, Sat. 10-6 |A E thletic North Chase Shopping Ctr. Liquidators 5065 University Parkway Winston-Salem "We have February as Black History Month and March as Women's History Month, and their existence acknowl edges a deficiency in social studies dur ing the seven other months of the year." -- Patricia Russian turaT curriculum. "Much has been done in estab ishing sex-fair and multicultural iterature in schools since the 1970s, but that comment is only in context with the total monoculture that time," Ms. Russian said. "What you do see is textbooks are more multicultural in the areas of iterature where it is cheapest to make the changes. "For example, in home eco nomics textbooks are more sex-fair and multicultural and so are math books because all you have to do is change the illustrations, the context of the word problems and change Dick and Jane to Pedro and Tonya." Social science and history books have not changed much in the past decade, Ms. Russian added. She pointed to the title of a chapter in a history book which described how the whites were responsible for the evolution of the Western United States to its present status. "From the title, you could see that the chapter was written strictly from the perspective of white Euro pean settlers, and that it did not inciude the experiences of black the handicapped* elderly and women in children's books is mere * ly tokenism, and it does not indicate an awareness of the important con tributions these people have made to American culture, Ms. Russian said. "Every school child today has to learn the dates on which Colum bus discovered America and the Constitution was signed, but they are not given details on the rise of the renaissance in black literature in the 1920s in Harlem, New York," she explained. "This exclusion indi cates a certain willingness to list the importance of some things, and with others they're saying well get to if we have time for it. "We have February as Black History Month and March as Wom en's History Month, and their exis tence acknowledges a deficiency in social studies during the seven other months of the year." 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