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Hair-ripping time in standards review
It’s a legal holiday, so no paid work is on the agenda. On the other hand, I feel that it’s my duty as someone trained in history to review the draft social studies standards for Florida, so this falls under citizenship, not work. I’m looking at the third-grade benchmarks in world history, and this appears […]
Department of Unfathomable Nostalgia
From the young (or at least ahistorically minded) Fordham Foundation staffer Liam Julian comes this too-credulous reporting: [A] Douglass High School alumnus called in [to a radio show] to say that when he was enrolled, in the early 1970s, bad behavior and teen pregnancy were actively stigmatized. Hmmn… maybe this alumnus was thinking just of […]
History games
While my fall teaching schedule may change, I am currently slated to teach the undergraduate history of ed course I last taught in spring 2007. That semester’s class worked well enough, but I want to raise the level of engagement with key issues, and I’ve been thinking about constructing games around key tasks in a […]
Florida’s draft social studies standards
Florida Department of Education staff have kindly sent me a text version of the draft social studies standards for Florida (XLS), which I have reworked into an Excel spreadsheet with two versions, one sorted by discipline and standard and another sorted by grade level. (Note: to do the sorting, I had to create standard codes. […]
Confederate flag flap in Tampa
The local Sons of Confederate Veterans has acquired a permit to raise a huge Confederate battle flag near a major highway intersection in Hillsborough County. Tampa hasn’t had such an embarrassing outbreak of nationally-visible racism for almost two decades. The last time you could sense a countywide wince was when the all-white, all-male sponsor of […]