miseducation


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mis·ed·u·cate

 (mĭs-ĕj′ə-kāt′)
tr.v. mis·ed·u·cat·ed, mis·ed·u·cat·ing, mis·ed·u·cates
To educate improperly.

mis′ed·u·ca′tion n.
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miseducation

(ˌmɪsɛdʒʊˈkeɪʃən)
n
a wrong or deficient education
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The race divergence under the system of miseducation was fast getting wider.
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Hill then went on to embark upon a successful solo career with The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, her only solo studio album, achieving critical acclaim and reaching number one spot in the charts.
Before Sunday the Grammys had frequently shut out hip-hop artists from its top prizes, despite rap's dominance as the biggest music genre in the United States.Only two albums by hip-hop artists have ever won the album of the year Grammy Lauryn Hill's "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" in 1999, and Outkast's "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" in 2004.Musgraves also won for best country album, song and country solo performance.
At just 34 years old she's already written and directed the acclaimed films Appropriate Behavior and The Miseducation of Cameron Post, and her series The Bisexual is now available on Hulu.
The na-tionalist historian Renato Constantino answers this question in his essay "The Miseducation of the Filipino," which aggressively criticized the United States for its "un-Filipino," neocolonial, and imperialistic education imposed upon us dressed as "benevolent assimilation."