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A Point of View - BBC4 - In Our Time - 0 views

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bbc podcast In Our Time history textbooks curriculum

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  • anonymous on 08 Oct 10
     
    "David Cannadine reflects on the teaching of history in schools and the moves at home and abroad to reform the curriculum and re-write the textbooks."
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Foreign Language Programs Cut as Colleges Lose Aid - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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language foreign education college cost

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  • anonymous on 06 Dec 10
     
    "If the cuts have struck a nerve far from this upstate campus and in more than one language, it is in large part because they involve language itself, and some cherished staples of the curriculum. The university announced this fall that it would stop letting new students major in French, Italian, Russian and the classics. The move mirrors similar prunings around the country at other public colleges and universities that are reeling from steep drops in state aid. After a generation of expansion, academic officials are being forced to lop entire majors. More often than not, foreign languages - European ones in particular - are on the chopping block. The reasons for their plight are many. Some languages may seem less vital in a world increasingly dominated by English. Web sites and new technologies offer instant translations. The small, interactive classes typical of foreign language instruction are costly for universities. But the paradox, some experts in higher education say, is that many schools are eliminating language degrees and graduate programs just as they begin to embrace an international mission: opening campuses abroad, recruiting students from overseas and talking about graduating citizens of the world. The University at Albany's motto is "The World Within Reach." "
  • anonymous on 06 Dec 10
     
    The TOK issue here is whether or not European foreign languages are necessary or valuable and thus, whether or not their elimination is a loss to higher education.
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Texas Braces for Debate on U.S. History Standards - 0 views

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history textbook Texas bias

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  • What the state incorporates into its standards can have nationwide significance because publishers often look to Texas, as well as California—the two biggest adoption states—when writing textbooks.
  • Some people questioned whether all the experts had the credentials to judge social studies standards.
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      anonymous on 16 Aug 10
       
      Some people questioned the methodology and credentials of the "experts."
  • Mr. Marshall wrote, “To have Cesar Chavez listed next to Ben Franklin is ludicrous. Chavez is hardly the kind of role model that ought to be held up to our children as someone worthy of emulation.”
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  • “who have influenced the community, state, and nation.”
  • Weighing Gravitas
  • They used the word “include” in the standards to mark a historical person students would be required to learn about and the phrase “such as” to mark someone teachers could choose to mention in their lessons, without requiring it.
  • “you want to have some order out of the chaos,”
  • anonymous on 16 Aug 10
     
    Texas is reissuing US History textbooks this year with a lot of controversial additions and deletions.
  • anonymous on 16 Aug 10
     
    Texas textbooks influence the entire US History curriculum around the country. What do you think the effect of Texas' changes will be to history as American students understand it?
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