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Article: Whose history is it? (National Standards for History)
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- Monthly Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 1996
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Given what went into the project to create National Standards for History, that is, guidelines for the teaching of history in America's schools, one might have expected that it would be as appreciatively received as the National Standards prepared for the other officially designated subjects (the arts, civics, geography, science, and foreign languages).
First of all, there was widespread recognition of the need to address what came to be known as the "crisis of historical education." Originally recognized as a problem by and for historians themselves in the 1970s, in the 1980s there was increasing public acknowledgment of, and a sense that something had to be done ...