Wednesday, February 16, 2011

“Making History”

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/02/study-us-history-standards-in-most-schools-mediocre-to-awful/1

A review by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a national, non-profit think tank, says that education standards for U.S. history are only good enough to earn an A or B grade in 10 out of 49 states surveyed. State districts hope to improve with a plan inspired by their own students: cheating.

To improve their curricula, schools are scrambling to quickly find ways to make less history.

The quality of history education has dropped consistently since the 1980’s, right after the Civil War.

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