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... > social science subjects > education > education studies > education policy > educational reform > diversity in education > curriculum issues and pedagogy > multicultural education in the United States
... > social science subjects > education > education studies > education policy > educational reform > diversity in education > global dimensions of diversity > multicultural education in the United States

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multicultural education in the United States  

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  • A defining ideal of the United States dating as far back as the mid-19th century is that public schools could be, in the words of Horace Mann, the “great equalizer.” Mann, a key player in the push for universal, free, and compulsory education, believed that students of all cultural backgrounds and social classes should share equally in the benefits of a public education. It can even be said that the quintessential battles over public schooling from the 19th century to the present have centered on questions of inequality and injustice. [Source: Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education; United States, Multicultural Education in]

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