[Ohiogift] Fwd: Down with History

[Gifted and Talented in Ohio Discussion List]

The BPS website has a message from the Interim Superintendent regarding
this topic.

On Friday, May 23, 2014, Gifted and Talented in Ohio Discussion List <
ohiogift at lists.service.ohio-state.edu> wrote:

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> Network
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>  H-High-S <https://networks.h-net.org/h-high-s>
>          Boston Public Schools to Eliminate History & Social Science
> Departments
> [image: ferreira at mail.h-net.msu.edu's picture]<https://networks.h-net.org/users/joseph-j-ferreira-jr>
> Joseph J Ferreira, Jr.<https://networks.h-net.org/users/joseph-j-ferreira-jr>
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> Wednesday, May 21, 2014
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> H-High-S <https://networks.h-net.org/h-high-s>
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> It was announced today <http://bpscurriculumandinstruction.weebly.com/>that the Boston Public School department is "reorganizing" by*
> eliminating all Departments of History & Social Sciences in all schools*and folding the departments into the Department of English Language Arts as
> a "Humanities Department" with the currciculum determined by the ELA Common
> Core Standards.  *Certified history department heads/chairs are being
> laid off* and, apaprently, no certified history specialist will be hired
> to replace any of these teachers. *This essentially eliminates history
> and the social sciences as one of the core academic departments in the
> Boston Public Schools* and subordinates HSS to ELA.  This appears to be
> the first major metropolitan school district to reduce history and the
> social sciences to merely a supporting role in the education of students.
> As it might appear to be a political issue, I will leave it to H-High-S
> network members to research this issue and the various petitions, political
> issues, etc. that are circulating about this matter, but as this addresses
> a core element of our network's *raison d'etre*, history education, I
> hope this will generate both interest and discussion.
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