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"http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/42.2/fallace.html From The History Teacher Vol. 42, Issue 2. Viewed February 1, 2010 2:50 EST Presented online in association with the History Cooperative. http://www.historycooperative.org Historiography and Teacher Education: Reflections on an Experimental Course Thomas D. Fallace University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia IN RECENT YEARS, professional historians have encouraged policy makers to increase content requirements in history in hopes of improving the overall teaching of history in American schools. Support for such proposals has come from many sources. The origins of this movement can be traced to the 1983 National Commission on Excellence in Education's Nation at Risk report, which declared that the ignorance of American youth was at a crisis level. E. D. Hirsch reiterated this concern in his best-selling Cultural Literacy, in which he also decried the lack of content knowledge of American students. Further studies, such as Diane Ravitch and Chester Finn's What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? and the Bradley Commission's Historical Literacy, argued that students were particularly deficient in historical knowledge. As a result, in the 1990s, many historians and policy makers endorsed a strengthening of history teacher requirements and the addition of expanded required historical content in the curriculum.1 1 In the 1980s and 1990s, new advances in cognitive and learning theory also supported increased disciplinary knowledge for teachers. In 1987, Lee Shulman's influential article, "Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of a New Reform," introduced the concept of pedagogical content knowledge-"a special amalgam of content and pedagogy that is uniquely the province of teachers, their own special form of professional understanding."2 Shulman argued that effective history teachers draw upon techniques and understandings unique to the discipline, not upon a generic set of instructional tools t

"Asia and the Old World Order"

The First World War Explains Modern Conflict #historyteacher: http://t.co/FF1QpGMt

"First world war: an imperial bloodbath that's a warning, not a noble cause Tory claims that 1914 was a fight for freedom are absurd - but then history wars are about the future as much as the past"

World Wide Web Virtual Library European University Institute Contents, Countries, History, Methods and Marterials Virtual Libraries History by Epochs

"Look back with angst A century on, there are uncomfortable parallels with the era that led to the outbreak of the first world war"

Good Overview of Causes. Includes some good historian quotes. Excellent for Revision purposes

"Canadian soldiers from 9th Brigade land with their bicycles at Juno Beach in Bernieres-sur-Mer during D-Day, while Allied forces were storming the Normandy beaches."

World & I publication with historical articles, documents and issues American History Western European Balkan PLA Russia

Assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History Conventions, Treaties, Official Papers Documents by Year

World War I: Primary Documents & Resources Path to War The War Resistance to War

Holy War Japan's War In Colour WWII and Japanese Empire 1937-1945 Widespread famine, political extremism 1:36:35

Fog of War Teacher Guide Links and Book Resources

WWI

" came across all kinds of sites "dedicated" to U.S. history, world history, culture, geography, maps, economics, etc., but these are the ones I found to be most up-to-date, accurate and professional. Also, I'll be adding "BONUS" sites to the list as I come across them. Make sure you check back often! So, without any further ado, here they are!"

WWII Interwar Years The Cold War Germany 1919-1939 Russia 1917-1941 US 1919-1941

Europe Historiography WWII Origins New Economic Policy Mussolini Metternic Post-Leninist World Imperial Germany