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History Education in the News
News and Discussion on developments in the world of History Education.
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Posted by Trainee in WWII , World War II , USRR , the past , Stalinism , Stalin , Soviet Union , Soviet , Russia , propaganda , Law , history , historian
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Source:oD Russia; June 21, 2010
Russia’s Duma has been trying to draft a ‘memory law’, in order to protect the Soviet version of the events of World War II from revisionist interpretations. The historian Nikolai Koposov deconstructs the attempts so far. His view is that the proposed law is not only misconceived, but would be unworkable. He also points out that the unspoken agenda behind it is the defence of Stalin and Stalinism. In the end, the law is never going to be the right vehicle for defending historical truths, he concludes.
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Posted by Trainee in World War II , US history , United States , truth , the past , Textbooks , Textbook , Texas , students , slavery , schools , republican , propaganda , politics , Law , Korea , Japan , ideology , history education , Germany , communism , American history
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Source: Consortiumnews; 26 May, 2010
Right-wingers running the influential Texas board that shapes how America’s school textbooks will teach history are demanding that Ronald Reagan and other modern Republicans be elevated into the pantheon of heroes, that “free market” ideology must be stressed, and that critical information about past U.S. actions must be deleted. The purpose is to indoctrinate American children with a “patriotic” version of history, all the better to ensure future right-wing dominance of U.S. politics. However, veteran teacher Rosemarie Jackowski notes that propaganda by American school systems already has a dark legacy.
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Source: News Times; March 29, 2010
In Sunday's News-Times (March 21), liberal historian Jonathan Zimmerman acknowledges that there is a liberal theme in most American history textbooks. What he fails to note is that the liberal script is inherently optimistic assuming that we progress toward the fulfillment of the promise of the Declaration of Independence.
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Posted by Trainee in World War II , Textbook , Texas , schools , religion , Law , ideology , Hispanic , education , debate , curriculum , bias
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Source: Chron; March 16, 2010
AUSTIN — The State Board of Education's Hispanic and African-American members clashed with its Anglo majority for hours Thursday over how to present history to the state's 4.7 million public school children. Much of the conflict centered on the racial balance of the historical figures to be included in textbooks starting in the 2011-2012 school year. Tempers boiled over when sex or religion were added to the mix. Members grew increasingly distraught over the process as they moved toward a preliminary adoption of new social studies curriculum standards, set for today.
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Posted by Trainee in Textbook , Texas , teachers , students , schools , religious , reform , Law , ideology , identity , exams , education , debate , curriculum , culture , controversial , civil rights , bias
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Source: The Rebel Yell; March 16, 2010
Defining requirements would improve quality, reduce bias in teaching. When I was growing up, it always seemed to me that teachers and textbooks were an infallible source of knowledge. Textbooks, dry and authoritative, weren’t even meant to be read straight through, but consulted for pearls of wisdom that were faithfully jotted down verbatim to earn yet another check-plus. Perhaps that unyielding gullibility is what has made curriculum content so controversial.
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Source: HNN; 12 March, 2010
While on a trip to the east coast from my home in Berkeley I get the news that yet another Native American site on California's northwest coast has been vandalized. Between the 1780s - when Thomas Jefferson dug up a huge cemetery containing a thousand human remains - and the 1970s, when the Red Power movement began to put amateur and professional archaeologists on the defensive, the discovery and excavation of native skeletons was promoted as good sport, entrepreneurial initiative, and sound science.
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