Masoff defended her work. "As controversial as it is, I stand by what I write," she said. "I am a fairly respected writer."
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tableofcontents - 1 views
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A useful resource for the Crusades.
Virginia 4th-grade textbook criticized over claims on black Confederate soldiers - 2 views
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When Masoff began work on the textbook, she said she consulted a variety of sources -- history books, experts and the Internet. But when it came to one of the Civil War's most controversial themes -- the role of African Americans in the Confederacy -- she relied primarily on an Internet search. The book's publisher, Five Ponds Press, based in Weston, Conn., sent a Post reporter three of the links Masoff found on the Internet. Each referred to work by Sons of the Confederate Veterans or others who contend that the fight over slavery was not the main cause of the Civil War.
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. Five Ponds Press has published 14 books that are used in the Virginia public school system, all of them written by Masoff. Masoff also wrote "Oh Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty" and "Oh Yikes! History's Grossest Moments."
Confucius [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] - 6 views
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There is a tremendous amount of information on this page regarding Confucius. Use it wisely!
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Given his extraordinary impact on Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese thought, it is ironic that so little can be known about Confucius.
The ARTFL Encyclopédie | ARTFL Encyclopédie Project - 7 views
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'The Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres was published under the direction of Diderot and d'Alembert, with 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates between 1751 and 1772. Containing 72,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors, the Encyclopédie was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences, as well as a machine de guerre which served to propagate the ideas of the French Enlightenment. The impact of the Encyclopédie was enormous. Through its attempt to classify learning and to open all domains of human activity to its readers, the Encyclopédie gave expression to many of the most important intellectual and social developments of its time.'
Mashpedia, the real-time encyclopedia - 7 views
Future Problem Solving Program International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 5 views
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These could be great to use as class discussion topics/starters. Or in some project based way in your class
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Would a topic like meeting the educational needs of students with different abilities be a useful topic?
Theories of the Black Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 3 views
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Artículo en Wikipedia que resume las teorías contrapuestas sobre las causas de la Peste Negra
Some Interesting Health Facts You Must Know. - 0 views
1. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate. 2. The human head is one-quarter of our total length at birth but on...
Confucius (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 4 views
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"Confucius (551-479 BCE), according to Chinese tradition, was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought. His teachings, preserved in the Lunyu or Analects, form the foundation of much of subsequent Chinese speculation on the education and comportment of the ideal man, how such an individual should live his live and interact with others, and the forms of society and government in which he should participate. Fung Yu-lan, one of the great 20th century authorities on the history of Chinese thought, compares Confucius' influence in Chinese history with that of Socrates in the West."
Interview with Sam Wineburg, critic of history education | HistoryNet - 1 views
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This raises the question: If historians can’t remember these things, why do we require 18- year-olds to know them? These tests stress small bits of information that are impossible to remember in the long term. Historians know something deeper. They know how to evaluate historical documents, how to look at conflicting sources and come to a reasoned judgment—in other words, how to be a citizen in a cacophonous democracy. That is the value-added of studying history and that is what we give short shrift to in our high school history classes.
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The knowledge-based economy doesn’t require students to be walking encyclopedias who can recall a piece of information. It requires the ability to sort through conflicting information and come to a reasoned conclusion. We need tests that help us do that.
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Many of the points made here have been made in other places, but they cannot be restated enough. Every history teacher needs to read this, and then read it again after a month of teaching
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