|
|
Article: National standards for history: the struggles behind the scenes.(National Standards: Pro and Con)
- Article from:
- The Clearing House
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
When, in late 1994, the National Center for History in the Schools, funded jointly by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities, unveiled the National Standards for United States and World History, the national landscape became illuminated by an eruption of history fireworks that engulfed scholars and laypersons alike. The reaction was no surprise to those who understood history as a contentious subject. The history debates in California(1) and the history wars in New York(2) had been prophetic forerunners of troubled times.
The heaviest criticism of the history standards came from the very people who three years before had ...