Erhabor Ighodaro & Greg Wiggan 
Curriculum Violence [PDF ebook] 
America’s New Civil Rights Issue

This book examines the historical context of African Americans’ educational experiences, and it provides information that helps to assess the dominant discourse on education, which emphasizes White middle-class cultural values and standardization of students’ outcomes. Curriculum violence is defined as the deliberate manipulation of academic programming in a manner that ignores or compromises the intellectual and psychological well being of learners. Related to this are the issues of assessment and the current focus on high-stakes standardized testing in schools, where most teachers are forced to teach for the test.