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A few years later, in 1908, a book was written that declared that the inscription was real and authentic.... This is why reasonable debate and searching for new evidence is important for both historians and students of history.... Although Loewen's opening statement that “High school students hate history” (1) is a generalization (I'm positive not every high school student hates their history classes), making students aware of the debates that are going on in the historical community would seem to make high school history less boring to a typical student....
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arason (1996) refers culture within a school setting as the set of beliefs and values coherent among the school leaders in steering the school and interpreted by the students into proper conducts and armored through the installation of discipline.... Needless to say, there is a broad correspondence among authors and scholars on how school cultures reacts to and replicates community attributes held by the students.... ulture in school grows as “teachers associate with each other, students and the community”....
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The book by James Loewen Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong and Lies Across America is really outstanding.... From the first sight it seems that the book is just a continuation of long-lasting debate about the false facts of American… However, close reading makes it clear that Loewen's approach to problem in teaching American history is unique.
... The given paper will discuss what is wrong with American history and why it appears to be false and really boring for students....
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In a testing scenario, targeting 21,000 home schooled children who had much higher proficiency on these tests than that of students in public schools, home schooled children outperformed their public school counterparts in every meaningful category of evaluation.... In this study, the students highlighted scored in the 70th and 80th percentiles, which is 10 to 20 percentage points higher than when these tests were administered to public school students (Henslin, 2005, pp....
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The essay analyzes the book "Lies my teacher told me” by James Loewen.... This book is a description that tells that US history books are filled with outright lies, omissions, misrepresentations as well as the impact of these false facts on the students of America.... In his book, the author has argued that there should be balance and thoughtfulness in the presentation of the history of America if that is made many would think that America is the worst country ever to exist in this world....
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arason (1996) refers culture within a school setting as the set of beliefs and values coherent among the school leaders in steering the school, and interpreted by the students into proper conducts and armored through installation of discipline.... Needless to say, there is a broad correspondence among authors and scholars on how school cultures reacts to and replicates community attributes held by the students.... Culture in school grows as “teachers associate with each other, students and the community” (Barth, 1990, p....
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The book, Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen represents a critical analysis of the manner in which textbooks used to teach American history in high schools are a great disservice to the nation and students.... Secondly, he is out to substantiate that much of the information Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen The book, Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen represents a critical analysis of the manner in which textbooks used to teach American history in high schools are a great disservice to the nation and students....
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A third practice covered within the scope of this book is the importance of providing support to the whole child and student.... One practice that is focused upon in the book is to guarantee that the instruction used in schools today is challenging, engaging, and intentional (Goodwin, 2011).... This leads into the final purpose of the book, which is to espouse the importance of developing data-driven and high-reliability district systems in which the schools in a particular region work together to provide each other with the necessary support to create the best educational system possible (Goodwin, 2011)....
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