European Association of History Educators

Source: The Budapest Report; 17 June 2010

By adapting the scientific understanding of teenagers, how they think, learn, and are moved to action, a successful program of history teaching, called Facing History and Ourselves, has gained prominence internationally. Adaptable to all regions, a basis for this method is to draw on the parallels with clearest modern tragedy from Holocaust Education. The focus of Holocaust Education in Hungary, and for Genocide Studies elsewhere, is different and in many ways more complex than in the US. For Facing this is not news.
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Source: The Huffington Post; March 16th, 2010

This is Not a Joke! Do Not Delete!" The email, with its urgent subject heading, found its way to my Inbox through a long series of forwards. The text demanded that I send the message on to at least 10 others, as "a memorial chain for those who died in the Holocaust." The goal: to reach 40 million people worldwide. What was the crucial information that needed to "go viral" immediately? The University of Kentucky, I learned, had "removed The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offended' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred.

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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.

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