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Millions of K-12 students throughout the United States have participated in “A Classroom of Difference,” an “anti-bias” program produced by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The curriculum is often glowingly publicized as just what schools need to “eliminate harassment, bullying, and racial tension,” as one newspaper put it. But how much do parents and taxpayers know about the content of the program that many of their schools are rushing to adopt? The program has grown dramatically since 1985, when it began in Boston as a joint endeavor between ADL and a local television station. Today, the “A Classroom of Difference” program...

BY FOUAD AJAMI July 3, 2003 12:01 a.m. EDT America is unloved in the alleyways of Nablus and Karachi, and in the cafes of Paris: The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press came forth last month with news of anti-Americanism in foreign lands. Its Global Attitudes Project, directed by the pollster Andrew Kohut, and chaired and advised by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, told us that the "bottom has fallen out" of support for America in the Muslim world, that the rift has widened between Americans and Europeans. From 20 countries, pollsters returned with what they...