Posted by
Defend America on Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:16:42 PM
North Carolina Schools May Cut Chunk Out of U.S. History Lessons
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
By Molly Henneberg
He may be the president who governed during the Civil War, freeing the
slaves, but under a new curriculum proposal for North Carolina high
schools, U.S. history would begin years after President Lincoln, with
the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877.
State education leaders say this may help students learn about more recent history in greater depth.
"We
are certainly not trying to go away from American history," Rebecca
Garland, the chief academic officer for North Carolina Department of
Public Instruction, told Fox News. "What we are trying to do is figure
out a way to teach it where students are connected to it, where they
see the big idea, where they are able to make connections and draw
relationships between parts of our history and the present day."
As
the North Carolina curriculum stands now, ninth-grade students take
world history, 10th-graders study civics and economics and 11th-graders
take U.S. history going back to the country's founding.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584758,00.html