A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Learning about history

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Learning about history

I was doing some reading for history senior seminar last night. D'Entremont handed out a series of photocopied articles that we have to read for Thursday. They're about high school (and some college) students who study history. What absolutely shocked me about these articles was that there are so few high school students who know even the basic facts about history- American, specifically. For example, there are 12th graders who don't know why the Unted States entered WWII. Is the problem the... Sign in to see full entry.

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