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In reply to the discussion: American education fails to teach us anything about American history. [View all]knitter4democracy
(14,350 posts)21. Sorry, but you might want to re-read your post, then.
You clearly blame the teachers and make several sweeping generalizations about how American history teachers throughout the US supposedly aren't teaching real US history. You continue to do so after saying that you don't in this most recent post. Taking your experience and applying it to the entire US is a bit much.
I'm sorry if I am coming across too strongly, but all of us teachers are getting tired of this meme, that we're inept, that we don't rise above bad standards and teach it the way it "should" be taught when, in reality, test scores are the highest in American history as are graduation rates, and especially in this area, American history teachers are doing a better job than ever when they have a harder time than ever.
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mountain grammy
Jan 2015
OP
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