History? Revisions in Teaching Spark Debate.
Guidelines Focus on Minorities' Role, Analytical Thinking
by Garland L. Thompson
Warfare is often the subject of history debates, but there are times in which the debate over history becomes warlike. One example is the contention over the proposed "National Standards for United States History" published by the UCLA Center for History in the Schools.
Released with the avowed purpose to "inspire nothing less than a new American revolution," the center's guidelines were developed under grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Department of Education and overseen by the National Council for …