The BPS website has a message from the Interim Superintendent regarding this topic. <br><br>On Friday, May 23, 2014, Gifted and Talented in Ohio Discussion List <<a href="mailto:ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div><div><div><h1><span style="font-size:20px">Boston Public Schools to Eliminate History & Social Science Departments</span></h1></div></div></div><div><div><div><a href="https://networks.h-net.org/users/joseph-j-ferreira-jr" target="_blank"><font size="4"><img src="https://networks.h-net.org/sites/default/files/styles/icon_tiny/public/user-pictures/picture-282-1372680705.jpg?itok=PjVnHigR" alt="ferreira@mail.h-net.msu.edu's picture" title="ferreira@mail.h-net.msu.edu's picture" height="16" width="16"></font></a></div>
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</div></div><div><div><div><font size="4">Wednesday, May 21, 2014</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div></div></div><div><div><div><a href="https://networks.h-net.org/h-high-s" target="_blank"><font size="4"><img src="https://networks.h-net.org/sites/default/files/styles/icon_tiny/public/network-logos/14773-h-high-s-banner.jpg?itok=AXOStk9P" alt="" height="16" width="16"><span>H-High-S</span></font></a></div>
</div></div><div><div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div></div></div><div><div><div><p><font size="4">It was <a href="http://bpscurriculumandinstruction.weebly.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">announced today</a>
that the Boston Public School department is "reorganizing" by<b>
eliminating all Departments of History & Social Sciences in all
schools</b> 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. <b>Certified history
department heads/chairs are being laid off</b> and, apaprently, no certified
history specialist will be hired to replace any of these teachers. <b>This
essentially eliminates history and the social sciences as one of the
core academic departments in the Boston Public Schools</b> 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.</font></p><div><span style="font-size:large">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 <i>raison d'etre</i>, history education, I hope this
will generate both interest and discussion.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large">=============</span></div>
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<font><font><font><b>“Teach with Examples”</b></font><br></font><font style="font-family:Palatino;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal">Will Fitzhugh [founder]</font><br><font style="font-family:Palatino;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><i>The Concord Review</i></font><font style="font-family:Palatino;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"> [1987]</font><br>
<font style="font-family:Palatino;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal">Ralph Waldo Emerson Prizes [1995]</font><br><font style="font-family:Palatino;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal">National Writing Board [1998]</font><br>
<font style="font-family:Palatino;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal">TCR Institute [2002]</font><br><font style="font-family:Palatino;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal">730 Boston Post Road, Suite 24</font><br><font style="font-family:Palatino;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal">Sudbury, Massachusetts 01776-3371 USA</font><br>
<font style="font-family:Palatino;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal">978-443-0022; 800-331-5007</font><br><font style="font-family:Palatino;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><a href="http://www.tcr.org/" target="_blank">www.tcr.org</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fitzhugh@tcr.org');" target="_blank">fitzhugh@tcr.org</a></font><br>
<font><b>Varsity Academics®</b></font><br><font style="font-family:Palatino;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><a href="http://tcr.org/bookstore" target="_blank">tcr.org/bookstore</a></font><br><font style="font-family:Palatino;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><a href="http://www.tcr.org/blog" target="_blank">www.tcr.org/blog</a></font></font></div>
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