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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 United States , UN , the past , teachers , students , Soviet Union , South Korea , Korea , history education , history , democracy
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Source: The Korea Herald; June 28,2010
Korean War veteran Ahn Su-ok, 76, feels disheartened when he finds that young people have no idea about the sacrifices he and his comrades made during the 1950-53 war. He says the freedom they enjoy should not be taken for granted. With the nation commemorating the 60th anniversary of the fratricidal war Thursday, Ahn underscored that education about the war should be strengthened to remember the blood and sweat soldiers shed for the country.
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Posted by Trainee in the constitution , nationalism , minorities , migration , internet , identity , Hungary , holocaust , history education , history , genocide , Facing History and Ourselves , education , democracy , culture
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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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Posted by Trainee in world history , the past , Textbooks , Textbook , Texas , teachers , students , liberal , history education , history , education , curriculum , conservative , civics , church , bias
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Source: The Depaulia; 9 June, 2010
Changes to Texas textbooks have caused outrage across the country. On May 21, the 15-member Texas Board of Education voted 9-5 to pass new standards that apply to all civics classes. The board argued that the teachers that wrote the curriculum were too liberally biased and believe the corrections they made to include Republican political philosophies and the portrayal of conservatives in a more positive light.
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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: The Seattle Times; April 6, 2010
WASHINGTON — The right is rewriting history.The most ballyhooed effort is under way in Texas, where conservatives have pushed the state school board to rewrite guidelines, downplaying Thomas Jefferson in one high-school course, playing up such conservatives as Phyllis Schlafly and challenging the idea the Founding Fathers wanted to separate church and state. The effort reaches far beyond one state, however.
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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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Source: Citizen-Times, March 8th 2010
ASHEVILLE — Debbie Goodwin with Buncombe County Schools once heard a Raleigh teacher compare teaching high school U.S. history to taking a bus down the interstate. There's very little time to stop and look around. “We joke that history only gets longer, and the semester gets shorter,” said Goodwin.But a proposal to split the teaching of U.S. history between high school and the elementary and middle school grades — in an attempt to provide time for teachers to provide greater depth — has sparked sharp criticism from the public and from some teachers.
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Posted by Trainee in training , teachers , students , schools , religious , religion , museums , multiculturalism , history education , education , culture
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Source: Clarionledger; March 8th 2010
When Chris Harth, director of global studies at St. Andrew's Episcopal School, attended a Chicago education conference three years ago, he met someone who told him about the International Museum of Muslim Cultures. It's an educational resource he didn't know existed. He was stunned to find out it was in Jackson. Now Harth is working with the museum to develop educational resources that can be used in Mississippi schools. And on Tuesday, the museum will present the first in a series of The Legacy of Timbuktu exhibition teacher-training workshops in Jackson.
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Source: The Hankyoreh; March 3rd 2010
The Hankyoreh and Asia Peace and History Education Network are working to compile East Asian teaching materials to broaden shared historical understanding. South Korea, China and Japan have been presenting very different explanations of major East Asian historical events in their respective history textbooks. All three countries have either entirely omitted to mention or presented very biased accounts of incidents they deem either unrelated or disadvantageous to themselves.
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The news headline on the WRAL website says "A new draft of history: Curriculum change defeated by negative feedback." (www.wral.com/news/local/story/7058590/).
So it looks as though the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has backed down and won't be eliminating the teaching of American history before 1877 from our high schools.
But let's look a little more closely, because the original plan is not actually dead. It's just getting a facelift.
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