Whatever happened to teaching history?
by Cal Thomas, Tribune Content Agency
Nov 14, 2019
2 minutes
According to a report by the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), the teaching of U.S. history to American students lags behind all other subject matters.
The latest NAEP survey finds that proficiency levels for fourth-, eighth- and 12th-grade students are in the 20, 18 and 12th percentile, respectively.
Part of this, I suspect, is the way the subject is taught. History is boring to
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