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SOURCE: NC Newsline
5/15/2023
North Carolina Introduces its own History Bill; Historians Call Foul
State legislators say they are ensuring that students at North Carolina colleges are taught core concepts in American history. Historians Jay Smith and William Sturkey argue that, since the legislature would determine the content of a mandatory course it amounts to indoctrination and token coverage of Black history.
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
5/2/2023
1776 vs. 1619: Hillsdale College Enters the History Wars
by Adam Hochshild
If conservatives are against "woke" history education, what, exactly, are they for? There's much to be learned from the curriculum created by the Michigan christian college, which presents a jarring contrast with the themes presented in the new Hulu documentary series based on Nikole Hannah-Jones's 1619 Project.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
4/18/2023
Teaching the History Wars
by Megan Threlkeld
Teaching first-year undergraduates about the recurrent conflicts over their curriculum takes them from not knowing what the "history wars" are to asking challenging questions about what counts as history.
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SOURCE: Matter of Fact
2/19/2023
Adam Laats Connects Current Course and Book Controversies to Past School Wars
The education historian joins Soledad O'Brien to discuss past controversies over how the past is taught.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
1/30/2023
On Florida's Erasure of Black History
by Lynn Pasquerella and Mary Dana Hinton
The Florida AP decision raises a host of troubling questions about what the state hopes to accomplish, with ominous implications for political enfranchisement, democratic deliberation, and civic connection.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/6/2023
Third Draft of Virginia History Standards Incorporates Responses to Some Criticisms
After appointees of Glen Younkin rejected the detailed standards developed in consultation with historians, educators and museum professionals in favor of a stripped-down document with little attention to the history minority groups, a new draft has explicitly mandated discussions of racism in the K-12 curriculum.
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1/8/2023
Hillsdale College's New Strategy in the School Wars Merges Curriculum and Privatization through "Choice"
by Megan Threlkeld
During the Progressive era, as today, American education reformers examined the connection between schooling and the cultural and political divisions affecting the nation. Today's conservative agenda, however, openly rejects the idea of public schools as a force for unity and democratic culture.
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SOURCE: EdWeek
12/15/2022
AHA Project to Determine What Happens in History Classrooms
Hoping both to fight media panics over "indoctrination" and guide policymakers and teachers toward better practices, the AHA will undertake a two-year project to investigate state curriculum decisions and classroom activities.
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12/11/2022
Virginia's "Guiding Principles" are a Right-Wing Fantasy of History
by Alan J. Singer
Governor Youngkin's allies on Virginia's commission to review state social studies standards have hijacked the process to advance a right-wing vision of history education in the state that expunges "divisive concepts" from the curriculum.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/7/2022
What Links COVID and Curriculum Conflicts in Schools?
Education historians Jack Schneider and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explain why there's a significant overlap between parents, especially conservatives, who objected to pandemic school closures and those who are demanding more control over curriculum decisions.
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SOURCE: AL.com
11/9/2022
U of Alabama Gen Ed Curriculum Under Debate Could Strip out English, Humanities Requirements
"If faculty approve the current proposal, some students may be able to graduate without taking a college-level history, literature or language course."
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SOURCE: Cleveland.com
11/7/2022
Nat'l Teacher of the Year Has No Plans to Stop Teaching Controversial Material
“I don’t want to be defiant, said Russell. “My sole purpose as a teacher is to provide my students with a holistic education and I don’t believe -- through my lived experience -- that taking away certain subjects or certain books will do so."
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
10/26/2022
Partisan Politics on a State Standards Revision
by Stephen Jackson
The South Dakota Department of Education discarded the recommendations of a work group of scholars, educators and elected officials in favor of a second group appointed by the governor, including political allies and an emeritus professor from Hillsdale College, seriously undermining rigor in the state social studies curriculum.
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SOURCE: ChalkBeat
10/12/2022
BOE Member who Wrongly Identifies Nazis as "Socialists" Shapes How Colorado Students Learn Holocaust History
Historians and teachers argue that tying limited space for Holocaust and genocide education in the curriculum to a crusade against leftist politics is distracting and an antisemitic hijacking of education by politics.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
3/30/2022
Stanford's New First-Year Curriculum Wants to Leave the Culture War Behind, if Culture Warriors Will Let It
by Dan Edelstein
A Stanford professor explains how the university is seeking to leave the culture wars behind and offer a first-year course series offering a campuswide shared intellectual experience, respects diversity, and gives STEM-oriented students permission to think deeply about subjects that aren't instrumental to a career.
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SOURCE: Civil War Memory
2/16/2022
Confronting History Should Make Us Uncomfortable
by Kevin M. Levin
Good teaching requires leveraging students' emotions to engage the past.
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2/20/2022
Lessons from the History Textbook Wars of the 1920s
by Bruce W. Dearstyne
Historians helped defuse a national tempest over allegedly unpatriotic textbooks in the 1920s by explaining the nature of professional historical research, interpretation, and dissemination, and insisting on the right and duty of professionals to exert expertise. That kind of work is needed again today.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/14/2022
New Laws have Teachers Confused, Scared, and Self-Censoring
Few new laws have (yet) impacted the curriculum or resulted in the prosecution of teachers. But nevertheless, history and social studies teachers across America report a real chilling effect from laws that subject them to community surveillance and censure.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
2/10/2022
How Will K-12 Book Bans Impact Higher Ed?
Social media are enabling like-minded parents to network and amplify calls to remove books from schools and libraries. Experts argue that parents' success will fail children's intellectual development and college readiness.
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SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman
1/25/2022
Texas Social Studies Curriculum Review Led by Scholar who Called Biden Election a "Literal Coup"
Stephen Balch, a founder of the conservative National Association of Scholars, is part of the panel advising Texas on its curriculum standards. He has amplified Trump's false claims of election fraud among other controversial positions.
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