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Articles on the National History Standards Controversy Note:
Access to some of these articles will require a subscription to JSTOR and
thus may not be able to be accessed outside the Messiah College campus.
"Debate Over a Conservative
View of the World History Standards" (H-Net, 1994)
History Teaching
Standards Cause Debate (The Minnesota Daily On-Line, 1996)
National
Standards For History Discussion on H-Net Lists
Press Reports on
World History Standards
Reconstructing History:
The Emergence of a New Historical Society Ad for book that extensively
covers the standards controversy from a critical perspective. Articles by
Diane Ravitch, John Patrick Diggins, Sean Wilentz. Worth a purchase.
Whose History?: The Struggle
for National Standards in American Classrooms. Ad for book by Lynda
Symcox on the history standards controversy. Published by Teachers
College Press.
Joyce Appleby, "The
National Standards: A U.S. History Perspective" (H-Net, 1994)
Christopher
Bates, "History on Trial Littered With Sloppy Contradictions" (UCLA
Daily Bruin, 1997)
William Benneta "Victimist
Delusions Are In. Science and Technology Are Out" (The Textbook League,
1994)
Michael Berube,
"Our Children Deserve to Know" (The Nation, 1997)
Karen Diegmueller
& Debra Viadero, "Playing Games With History" (Education Week,
1995)
Leon
Fink, "After National Standards, What Next for History in the Schools?" (AHA
Perspectives On-Line, 1998)
John Fonte,
"History and its Enemies," (The National Review, 1997)
Rich Gibson,
"History on Trial in the Heart of Darkness (Theory and Research in
Social Education, 1998)
James
Hill, "Whatever Their Merits, The National Standards Will Not Be Widely Implemented"
(The History Teacher, 1997)
Gregory
Lamb, "In Teaching History, No Single View of the Past Prevails (Christian
Science Monitor, 1997)
Craig
A. Lockard, "World History and the Public: The National Standards Debate"
(AHA Perspectives On-Line, 2000)
Clair
W. Keller, "Comparing the Original and Revised Standards for History (The
History Teacher, 1997)
Kathleen Kennedy
Manzo, "Glimmer of History Standards Shows Up in Latest Textbooks" (Education
Week, 1997)
Walter
A. McDougall, "The New History Standards" (Foreign Policy Research
Institute, 1997)
Doris
Meadows, "History in the Classroom: Dead or Alive" (The History Teacher,
1997)
Jim Morris, "How
Not to Set National History Standards" (CivNet Journal, 1998)
Gary
Nash, "Early American History and the National History Standards" (William
and Mary Quarterly, 1997)
Mark Noll, "History
Wars I" (Books and Culture: A Christian Review, 1998)
Diane Ravitch and
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., "The New, Improved History Standards" (The
Wall Street Journal, 1996)
Melanie
Rhoads, et, al, "Examining National Standards" (Horizon, 1999)
C.
Frederick Risinger, "The National History Standards: A View From the Inside"
(The History Teacher, 1995)
Mary Ann Zehr,
Virginia Revamps its Social Studies and History Standards (Education
Week, 2001)
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