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Mar 10
2010
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Learning about history? Fuggedaboudit!Posted by: Trainee in General on Mar 10, 2010 Tagged in: US history , Textbooks , Textbook , schools , rights , internet , education , curriculum , civics
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Source: Technician; March 10th 2010
For those of you who follow the news or detest history classes, recent events regarding the instruction of history in elementary through high school may have caught your attention. And if you hated history classes, then you suddenly wish the news surrounding the reform of North Carolina’s history curriculum happened before you had to sit through those dry, boring lectures about the Federalists, Whigs and the Missouri Compromise.
It is the esteemed opinion of this columnist that the proposal, which would mandate education in history from 1877 on (or divide the curriculum into two classes, pre-1877 and post-1877), fits with the general atmosphere of the times.
