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Independent Lens | The Case Against Ethnic Studies | PBS

Duration: 02:59
Program: Independent Lens #1323
Broadcast Date: May. 17, 2012

In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary, Precious Knowledge, Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Horne, holds a press conference calling for the end of the Mexican American Studies Program. He believes ethnic studies emphasize ethnic solidarity, rather than assimilation with American ideas, and should be abolished.

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