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Article: National standards or economic imperialism? (response to article by Stephen Buckles and Michael Watts in this issue, p. 157)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Economic Education
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Turn about is fair play. In the previous article, Stephen Buckles and Michael Watts scold the authors of the standards in history, social studies, civics, and geography for their failure to incorporate economics into the national standards for their disciplines. What would historians and other social scientists say about the national standards in economics?
This question emphasizes an underlying theme of the Buckles and Watts article. Neither the economics standards nor the history standards are stand-alone products. Voluntary standards in economics will not be widely adopted unless they can be integrated into the traditional elementary and secondary school ...