Michael O’Malley’s take on Virginia history textbook errors
The SOLs are the problem. They combine the huffing and blowing of conservatives, who want measurable fact-based standards, with the wheedling of liberals, who want “inclusion.” The result trains kids away from argument and reason and towards empty memorization. via Those VA History textbooks – The Aporetic. Bad standards aren’t the entire problem, but incoherent […]