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WebsterMark wrote on Today at 04:57:04:This piece is EXCELLENT . "... Most parents presume their children learn the full breadth of world history at school, but they are sadly mistaken. AP exams are considered the gold standard for high school education in America, yet there is no mention of ancient Greece on the AP World History exam, which was rewritten in 2019. AP testmaker, the College Board, promised an ancient world AP exam at the time of the rewrite, but never launched it. That means a student who takes the most common AP history sequence coupled with the high school curricula designed for the exams will never learn about the ancient Greek world.
This omission isn’t an oversight, but the result of an over-a-century-old educational transformation. Previously, history education asked students to commit dates to memory, learn about monumental figures, and grasp the arc of civilization.They memorized and recited grand speeches, etching the words and deeds of renowned figures into their minds and hearts.
That changed with the dawn of the 20th century. In 1916, the National Education Association’s Committee on Social Studies issued a report that proposed discontinuing the teaching of history as a discrete school subject and replacing it with an interdisciplinary program including history, civics, geography, economics, and sociology called social studies. Father of progressive education John Dewey’s Democracy and Education was published the same year, and Dewey’s ideas pervade the report, which is considered the founding document of social studies as a school subject.
Instead of a systematic march through the most important events of the past, the new social studies program would be organized around contemporary social issues and students' own interests. It would conclude with a capstone course in which students analyzed social problems as social scientists do, gathering data and recommending solutions.
History, now a mere part of social studies, quickly transformed into a social science, observing human behavior in the aggregate and drawing trends from the past. Classrooms became laboratories of democracy where students simulated civic activity instead of memorizing timelines, in the hope that practicing citizenship would prepare them for it.
This new approach sounded appealing,
but had many negative consequences. ..."
"Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it"The, GIMMIE, GIMMIE, GIMMIE, people, who are to LAZY to work. Forgot, that WORK, built that road they stand on, and say, GIMMIE, GIMMIE, GIMMIE. Now that, is a OPINION
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Ben Franklin once said: "If you give up a freedom, for the sake of security, you will have neither".
Which is More TRUE, today, than yesterday.('06, S-40, Stock) well, mostly .
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