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A few thoughts about the recent article "Teaching History Is Hard: How to invite students to think for themselves" by Edward Ayers medium.com/new-american-h… that was also featured in the @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/education/2020…

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As pointed out by @samwineburg in the opening chapter of Why Learn History amazon.ca/Learn-History-… anxiety in the US over students' lack of knowledge of US history (as revealed by national tests like the NAEP and its predecessors) has been ongoing for more than a century.

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The NAEP history test has been criticized by history educators for many reasons.

Shuttleworth and Patterson (2019) criticized the NAEP for using misleading achievement level terms, which led to negative cross-partisan media reports
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