dr. whitehead, you're an educator, you know all about the curricula out there. how would you make it more effective and more productive? >> i think there's a big disconnect. even though we learn the big sixes, that i call it, frederick douglas, there's a disconnect because what they are doing is they are collapsing the history of african-americans in this country down to one month. this notion that each week is something different, one week is civil rights movement, one is slavery, one is barack obama, one is where we are going forward and students get confused. they start connecting harriet tubman to dr. king and not reali t difference in time and connecting barack obama, but they don't get confused about george washington and thomas jefferson because they had the ten months of school learning about that history, which we call white history, american history, but really white history because you talk only about white people during that time and remove our history. how can it be more productive? taking black history, putting it back into the curriculum and getti