Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 18:16:33 -0500
From: CharanL@aol.com


I just read a new book by Ezola Foster What's right for all Americans, the
subtitle of the book reads "A fearles Los Angeles Schoolteacher Challenges
the Black Political Establishment

Mrs Foster wrote a fresh and insightful book which reads like a novel. She is
a black teacher with thirty years of experience in public schools in South
Central, L.A..She did not learn about poverty, misery and struggles of
everyday life from books she lived it. Chapters like Hyphenated Americans,
Who's minding the children, and Ebony and Agony, and others show in very
sincere and intelligent way where our children and our country's future in
education are going.

"Many our problems in raising children, she writes, go back to the ideas of
John Dewey, who taught that what a child learns is not as important as how he
learns... Thirty years later Johnny learn more about how he feels about being
black, than history. Self-expression is more important than facts.

It was extremely refreshing to see honesty and care in the way Mrs. Foster
shares with the reader her thoughtful observations about our society,
education, immigration and politics. One of the reviewers of her book
described Ezola Foster as colorblind. I disagrre, she sees and appreciates
all the colors. She simply refuses to allow her own skin color to dictate her
the way to think. And that might be the only honest way to speak out one's
mind. This is a very new book and if it is not on the shelves of your local
bookstore, call the publisher:

WRS Publishing
P O Box 21207, Waco, TX 76702-1207
(800) 299-3366

Charan Langton (CharanL@aol.com)
Please e-mail me at CharanL@aol.com about interesting books you have read (I
prefer small publishers or books that are not widely covered) and would like
me to review them.