This semester I am teaching my graduate course — Teaching and Learning History in the Digital Age — and on our first night of the semester we had what my older son would call “a fail.” In this case, it was a “classroom fail.” Why? Because the room to which we were assigned was not…
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Ted Kennedy’s High Water Mark
Senator Ted Kennedy died today after a long battle with cancer. I was fortunate to be on the floor of Madison Square Garden in the summer of 1980 when Kennedy delivered his concession speech to the Democratic National Convention. That speech was, I think, the high water mark of his career. He came very close…
Help Change the World
If you are a history teacher (or really just a teacher) with a desire to help make the world a better place and have some time on your hands this summer (or next), I highly recommend a stint as a volunteer with Teachers Across Borders. This very worthy NGO is currently seeking volunteer teachers to…
So It’s Come to This?
Who knew that history educators could be put in the unenviable position to fighting to keep a standardized multiple choice test that is inflicted on third graders here in Virginia? For as long as the test’m till they drop mentality has been governing history instruction at the K-12 level, history teachers have been complaining about…