A history teacher on what's happening in schools: In the final analysis, history remains essential to the democratic process and is too complicated and important to be left to engineers. The struggle and debate over the content of the history curriculum is crucial for defining ourselves as Americans and citizens of the world, and this is a dialogue in which all students need to participate.
In the final analysis, history remains
essential to the democratic process and is too complicated and
important to be left to engineers. The struggle and debate over the
content of the history curriculum is crucial for defining ourselves
as Americans and citizens of the world, and this is a dialogue in
which all students need to participate.
- See more at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/162091#sthash.JmVrF4M2.dpuf
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Also happening in schools:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35788369
The item is titled, "Why is maths education a huge political issue in America?"
Seems that from the British perspective, discarding a single, classical method in favor of a set of six alternative procedural algorithms to accomplish the same task chimes a bit on the absurd.
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