Category Archives: Social Studies

Rate Busters

Posted on 15/09/2021 by Will Fitzhugh

Will FitzhughThe Concord Review1 September 2021 Back in the day, when Union contracts specified the number of widgets each worker was expected to produce during a shift, that number was called “the rate.” Anyone who produced more than that number … Continue reading →

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Rare Books

Posted on 10/06/2021 by Will Fitzhugh

There is a general consensus among EduPundits that teacher quality is more important than student academic work in producing student academic achievement. That is mistaken. There is a general consensus among Social Studies educators that High School students are incapable … Continue reading →

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Comments of Mary Byrne to Springfield, MO public schools board on critical race theory

Posted on 30/12/2020 by Mary Byrne

Mary R. Byrne, Ed.D.December 8, 2020______________________________________________________________ I’d like to address Focus Area 5, Goal 1 of the 2019-2020 Strategic Plan End of Year Report that will be presented tonight specifically with regard to the following language: Facing Racism training objectives … Continue reading →

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Persian Gulf tensions recall a previous “gulf” crisis: The Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Posted on 05/08/2019 by Erich Martel

Why congressional oversight and investigative journalism must be aggressive Dear Member of Congress, Dear Investigative Journalist, The recent ebb and flow of tensions in and around the Persian Gulf and the president’s family’s business ties to Gulf and Mid-east states … Continue reading →

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Indoctrinating our youth: How a U.S. Public School Curriculum Skews the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Posted on 14/04/2019 by Sandra Stotsky

https://www.camera.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Monograph-Spring-2017.pdf Anti-Israel Indoctrination Continues In Newton Public High School

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Students Last

Posted on 08/04/2017 by Will Fitzhugh

Will Fitzhugh The Concord Review 6 April 2017 The great social psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan wrote that the principal problem with communication is that we think we express meaning to others, when in fact we evoke it. That is, what … Continue reading →

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