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In reply to the discussion: American education fails to teach us anything about American history. [View all]mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)34. I'm sorry. I hope this satisfies the requirement.
Last edited Tue Jan 6, 2015, 11:09 AM - Edit history (2)
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Study-Americans-Dont-Know-About-Much-About-History.htmlhttp://thoughtcatalog.com/nico-lang/2013/10/14-surprising-things-americans-dont-know-according-to-poll-numbers/
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43397386/ns/us_news-life/t/report-students-dont-know-much-about-us-history/#.VKtXtCvF82Y
https://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/histignr.html
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mountain grammy
Jan 2015
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Labor History is important… Here is an interesting time line that shows us how we got here.
midnight
Jan 2015
#7
Too often they try to cram too much into the curriculum. There is no time to go into any
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2015
#8
The teachers are great. It is the curriculum that isn't so great. Unfortunately teachers don't get
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2015
#23
and now that Republicans have weakened teacher unions with Democrats being complicit in it,
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2015
#26
We didn't have Zinn's book or any of those books when I was in high school.
Manifestor_of_Light
Jan 2015
#32
One of my favorite teachers was more about the approach than the specific material
Posteritatis
Jan 2015
#31