History Guidelines

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independent thinker. Wow. Imagine how many more Martin Luther King�s, and Thomas Paine�s their would be in the future. After all they did have a distorted picture of America and knew about the hidden facts.

Let�s just take one point in history and imagine it eas taught without these guidelines. Right now you probably believe that to celebrate Columbus Day is patriotic. To doubt Columbus Day would be unpatriotic (Zinn 07). With the way youth thinks is in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. This story is about as complete as Swiss cheese. This is because hidden facts are not mentioned in these guidelines. When people celebrate Columbus Day your celebrating the discovery of America, his progress of maritime exploration, and a very religious man conquering in the name of God.

If you believe that the above is true than you have also fallen into these guideline traps. A schoolteacher in Oregon has undertaking a crusade to change the way the Columbus story is taught. He ...

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to be measured. When it is measured I feel that the truth has to be out in the open for everyone to judge. From what I�ve read my measurement of Columbus�s progress is from the point of view that he is a vilian and most definitely not a hero.

Let�s consider that these guidelines are removed. What will happen to the teachers? What will become of the old and new textbooks?

There really was no controversy in the profession, among teachers or anyone else, except for the conservative critics (Lewis 01). The teachers don�t see a problem in which the way they teach by a majority. Teachers probably think that the more they tell these hidden facts about history, than the more a ...

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