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Atlantic article reviews recent college history trends, initiatives

  • 1.  Atlantic article reviews recent college history trends, initiatives

    Posted 02-16-2016 04:07:00 PM

    A recent article in The Atlantic offers an overview of recent trends in college history learning. The piece also quotes Elaine Carey, who just just finished her term as AHA Vice President, Teaching Division, among others.

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    Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now > History education generates heated controversy among educators and policymakers. There is a long history of tension over which historical facts children should be learning in school and when, whether a particular set of proposed standards is too patriotic, too multicultural, or whitewashes uncomfortable truths.
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    How do these issues take shape in your own curriculum?

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    Julia Brookins
    special projects coord.
    American Historical Assoc.
    jbrookins@historians.org
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