How U.S. History is taught could change in N.C.

WRALNews.com ^ | February 10, 2010 | Bruce Mildwurf

[NCDragon]

Raleigh, N.C. — A new proposal for the history curriculum in North Carolina public schools is causing uproar. Among the biggest concerns is covering U.S. history only from 1877 to the present in the 11th grade.

“There's nothing on the Confederacy, nothing on Robert E. Lee, nothing on Abraham Lincoln, nothing on any battle, nothing on reconstruction, nothing on the causes of the war, nothing on slavery. Nothing on slavery anywhere in the curriculum,” said Dr. Holly Brewer, associate professor of Early American History at North Carolina State University.

Brewer opposes the curriculum change and says students would not learn enough about important historical concepts, like slavery.

The state Department of Public Instruction argues that courses would touch on slavery, and other pre-Reconstruction issues, in civics and economics class.

Brewer disagrees and says it's not enough time to cover all that needs to be taught.

[Clemenza]

Had Kaiser Wilhelm been allowed to remain on the throne, we would not have had to put up with a certain Austrian corporal twenty years down the line.

WWI was one war the US shouldn't have intervened in. Blame Wilson's ideological fanaticism on "spreading the goddess democracy" and his (and his state departments) slavish Anglophilia.

[NCjim]

NC - “First in hog farms, 49th in education”

[Verginius Rufus]

I was assuming that they picked 1877 because that's when Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars, were discovered--I think they were the first satellites in the solar system discovered by an American.

1877 is also the year that Crazy Horse died. There was also a widespread railroad strike that year.

[Verginius Rufus]

Woodrow Wilson's mother was born in Carlisle, England. Maybe the "natural born citizen" rule needs to be amended--only persons can be President if both parents were born in the U.S. Wilson's Anglophilia may have influenced his handling of the war.

Of course the conduct of the German government gave the Brits a lot of propaganda fodder (burning of the library at Louvain, etc.)...plus killing civilians both in occupied territories and on ocean liners.

[Rinnwald]

Did you get all that information on a nostalgia birthday card because your birth year is 1877? Mine only lists the mutton-chops thing.

-H.G. Wells’ valet

[rwfromkansas]

That’s sad, but when you have school systems that cover entire counties, that shouldn’t be a shock.

I had looked at applying for teaching jobs there a couple years back very briefly (history degree, btw...so I am not just jumping off saying their system is crazy compared to other states).

Too much bureaucracy in a massive school system like that.

[SunkenCiv]

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