On Bluesky, Caroline Dodds Pennock is asking for “a handout/model that they’ve used effectively to show students how to read an academic article?” I can’t post a PDF there, so I’ll post one here and send a link.
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New page: How to Narrow a Research Topic
How to Narrow a Research Topic. Primarily for undergraduates in capstone courses and graduate students in research seminars, but really for anyone who needs to define a manageable history topic.
SPLC Makes Doubtful Curriculum Claims
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has released a new report, Teaching the Movement: The State of Civil Rights Education in the United States 2011, that claims that ” Across the country, state educational standards virtually ignore our civil rights history.”
The report reaches this claim by comparing ” state standards and curriculum frameworks” to “the generally accepted core knowledge about the movement.” But I think the comparison could have been more thorough.
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