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New standards for teaching world history are too politically correct. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 19941122
Author:Jacobs, Joanne
Fifth-graders will stage the trial of Socrates. Seventh-graders will read selections from Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus and discuss what evidence they offer of classical Greek moral values and civic culture. High school students will compare the ideas of Plato and Aristotle on government.
And pigs will fly. World-class.
The new national standards on world history were released recently. Civics standards came out last week, U.S. history a few weeks ago.
The standards were developed by historians as part of Goals 2000, the federal education reform effort, which seeks ...
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