This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: The Denver Channel
9-25-14
Anderson said the goal of the revisions was to encourage contextualizing and analytical thinking over memorizing facts and dates -- more like a college class.
Source: EdWired
9-15-14
by Mills Kelly
"There is nothing in the data, either from IPEDS or from the NCES, that should give us hope for the future of our discipline."
Source: US Intellectual History blog
9-18-14
by Tim Lacy
Scholarship in the Age of Kindle.
Source: The Denver Channel
9-25-14
Dozens of students walked out of class and protested for a fifth day in Jefferson County.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
9-15-14
State official says changes promote critical thinking, not revisionist history.
Source: University of Wisconsin
9-25-14
“To receive the Robert Marshall Award is for me an affirmation not just of my scholarship, but of what I’ve always regarded as one of the most important ways I’ve tried to enact the values of the Wisconsin Idea in my work as a citizen scholar.”
Source: Winston-Salem Journal
9-23-14
During his career, he wrote two books, “Jonathan Worth: Biography of a Southern Unionist” in 1965 and “North Carolina During Reconstruction” in 1969.
Source: The Spectator
9-20-14
A review of ‘The Secret World’, by Hugh Trevor-Roper. The future Lord Dacre's early work for MI6 shaped the rest of his life.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
9-12-14
“As much as I try to explain how white supremacy works to some people in my cohort, I feel like they don’t get it. It makes me feel like my work is in vain as a black man in the academy.”
Source: Bloomberg
9-19-14
Kaiser and eight other members wrote to Harvard President Drew Faust demanding to know why compensation at the endowment doubled in three years.
Source: The Denver Post
9-22-14
"I want honesty in my classroom," the students said in a letter presented to Superintendent Dan McMinimee.
Source: Kickstarter
9-23-14 (accessed)
NUTS! is the story of John Brinkley, who in 1917 cures impotence via goat testicle transplantation. (Then the story really gets weird.)
Source: National Geographic
9-21-14
Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.
Source: Slate
9-12-14
“We are in a media culture where we are buried in information but we know nothing."
Source: Vulture
9-19-14
"Though exciting to watch, Burns’s cinematic homage muddles the history."
Source: The New Republic
9-17-14
In realizing the “personal” Roosevelts, something of the “public” is lost.
Source: Inside Higher ED
9-17-14
“Take it big!” Tackle major issues.
Source: KUSA
9-18-14
Jeffco School Board Member Julie Williams proposes to create a committee to make sure U.S. History is being taught correctly in high school.
Source: The Santa Cruz Sentinel
9-19-14
Goal of film is to spark social change
Source: Talking Points Memo
9-21-14
Texas on Wednesday moved to require its high school students to learn only state-mandated curriculum — not be taught to the national test.
