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Roni Dean-Burren

Doctoral student, University of Houston

Roni Dean-Burren is an educator and a doctoral student at the University of Houston. Her research area focuses on black boys, reading motivation and the school-to-prison pipeline.

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History must be written in pen

By Roni Dean-Burren, Oct. 8, 2015

McGraw-Hill's choice to use the word "workers" to describe slaves in their World History textbook is an attempt to write history in pencil — light and easily erasable.