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 * This page focuses on contrasting content as a democratic teaching strategy. **


 * Topics on the Page: **
 * Learning History Through Uncoverage **
 * **Teaching Multicultural History**
 * **Levels of Integration of Multicultural Content**
 * **Lesson Plan: 10 Most Famous Americans Activity**
 * Politics of Textbooks and Standards **
 * Opening Up the Textbook (OUT) **
 * **Why Social Studies Textbooks Are So Difficult to Read**
 * **Strategies for Opening Up the Textbook**
 * Teaching Ideas for Curriculum Uncoverage **
 * **Lesson Plan: Teaching the Book //Encounter//**


 * Listing of Digital Textbooks **

For more books and resources for curriculum uncover age, go to the Web Resources page on this wiki.

** Learning History Through Uncoverage **
====[|If We Knew Our History,] Zinn Education Project, features articles highlighting the inadequacies of mainstream textbooks in presenting history====

[|Uncoverage in History Survey Courses], TeachingHistory.org

 * Calder, L. (2006). Uncoverage: Toward a signature pedagogy for the history survey. // Journal of American History //

[|The End of the History Survey Course: The Rise and Fall of the Coverage Model]. Joel M. Sipress & David J. Voelker, The Journal of American History, March 2011

[|Multiperspectivity: What Is It and Why Use It?]

Undue Certainty: Where Howard Zinn's A People's History Falls Short, Sam Wineburg (American Educator, Winter 2012-2013, pp. 27-34).

Politics in the Classroom: How Much Is Too Much?, NPR (August 6, 2015)

Teaching Multicultural History

 * Levels of Integration of Multicultural Content,** James A. Banks

====The Causal Effects of Cultural Relevance: Evidence from an Ethnic Studies Curriculum, American Educational Research Journal, 2016====
 * High school students taking a course examining "the roles of race, nationality and culture on identity and experience" improved grades, attendance, and graduation rates


 * Academic Benefits of Mexican-American Studies Reaffirmed in New Analysis**
 * Students who participated in the ethnic studies courses were more likely to graduate from high school and pass standardized exams they had previously failed


 * [[image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Flag_map_of_Illinois.svg width="38" height="72" link="@http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/mandates_2.htm"]]Social Science Curriculum Mandates: Illinois**
 * Mandates teaching African American history, women's history, and holocaust and genocide studies


 * [[image:multicultural.png link="@https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Flag_map_of_Illinois.svg"]]African American History, School District of Philadelphia**
 * First major city to require African American history for all high school graduates in 2005


 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-10-28 at 11.53.33 AM.png width="76" height="88" link="@http://opi.mt.gov/pdf/IndianEd/Search/Social%20Studies/HS%20Montana%20Constitution%20Article%20X%20and%20IEFA.pdf"]]Montana State Constitution Article X and Indian Education For All, Montana Office of Public Instruction**
 * 1972 constitutional amendment requires teachers to integrate information about Native American cultures and history in all instruction
 * Native American History is often overlooked in schools. One state is trying to change that, Huffington Post (March 17, 2015)


 * //[[image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Gay_flag.svg width="75" height="46"]]California's FAIR Education Act//**
 * **The Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act, Senate Bill 48 in California, requires representation in public school learning resources of diverse populations' contributions to the development of the United States and the state of California.**
 * “ //Pacific Islanders, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, and persons with disabilities// ” are included in this law.

**Lesson Plan: The Most Famous Americans ** **Please list 10 names that you consider the most famous Americans in history ****, with ** no U.S. presidents or first ladies ** on the list. **

**Compare your list of 10 most famous names with lists by high schoolers and historians to think about how different generations recall famous Americans** **.**
 * ** [|Click on the following article] ** to compare your choices with the high schoolers' choices at the time the article was written from Stanford University historian Sam Wineburg
 * **Click on the following article** to compare your choices to those of 10 professional historians**.**
 * ** [|Meet the 100 Most Significant Americans of all Time] ** from Smithsonian Magazine
 * ** [|Ten Historic Female Scientists You Should Know] ** from Smithsonian Magazine
 * **[|Top 10 Greatest Scientists Who Changed the World]** from Linked In

//[|Who's Bigger: Where Historical Figures Really Rank]//. Steven S. Skiena & Charles B. Ward. Cambridge University Press, 2013

** Politics of Textbooks and Standards **
[|Writing to the Standards: Reviews of Proposed Social Studies Textbooks for Texas Public Schools][|,] Texas Freedom Network Education Fund, September 2014

[|Advanced Placement History Test Accused of Being Unpatriotic], NPR, February 23, 2015

[|Oklahoma May Scrap AP History for Focusing on America's "Bad Parts"] NPR, February 18, 2015

[|Can Teaching Patriotism Protect France?] The Boston Globe, February 8, 2015

[|Teaching the Movement 2014: The State of Civil Rights Education in the United States]from Teaching Tolerance

[|NCAC Writes to Hanover, VA: School District's Fix Could Actually Make Things Worse.]

[|Citizen Group Reviewing Collier Co. (Florida) School Textbooks], December 29, 2014

[|AP History Class Standards Spark Colorado Censorship], PBS Newshour, October 3, 2014

[|ISIS Eradicates Art, History and Music in Iraq]. CBS News, September 15, 2014.

[|Bill Gates Wants Your Kids to Learn History This Way--and He's Paying to Get it into Schools.] The Washington Post. September 9, 2014.

[|Republican National Committee Condemns New AP Framework], August 11, 2014

[|In Textbook Fight, Japan Leaders Seek to Recast History]. The New York Times, December 28, 2013.
 * See also, [|Examining the Japanese History Textbook Controversies]from the Stanford University Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
 * [|The History Textbook Controversy in South Korea and Japan]. St. Olaf College, January 14, 2014.

[|Controversy Over Textbook Biased "in Favor of Islam" Continues in Volusia County Schools]. Orlando Sentinel, November 11, 2013

[|The Great Textbook War: The Kanawha County Textbook Wars, 1974-75]from American Radio Works.

** Opening Up the Textbook (OUT) **

 * Why Social Studies Textbooks Are So Difficult to Read **


 * [|Overview of Opening Up the Textbook] from TeachingHistory.org**

[|Opening Up the Textbook] from University of Texas El Paso

[|Lesson Plans for Opening Up the Textbook] from Historical Thinking Matters
 * [|Teacher Educator Lesson: Opening Up the Textbook (OUT)] on Rosa Parks

[|OUTS Opening Up the Textbook]from Northern Nevada Teaching American History Project

[|Beyond the Bubble: Opening Up the Textbook] from Stanford History Education Group on YouTube

** Teaching Ideas for Curriculum Uncoverage **



 * See Kyle Ward. // [|Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks] // . New Press, 2010.
 * //An Indigenous People's History of the United States,// Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Beacon Press, 2015
 * //A People's History of the World//, Chris Harman
 * //A Little History of the World//, E. H. Gombrich

[|If We Knew Our History Series]from the Zinn Education Project features articles highlighting the inadequacies of history textbooks
 * [|Missing from Presidents' Day: The People They Enslaved]

//[|American History Textbook Lies: Everything Your Teacher Got Wrong] on YouTube//


 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-01-04 at 11.31.08 AM.png]]Lesson Plan: Teaching the book //Encounter//**

Book Trailer for [|Jane Yolen's picture book, Encounter]

Read the comments after seeing this to learn about a Native American perspective, presented here by Debbie Reese. on the American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) website
 * Recommended resource for non-Native teachers: @http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Broken_Flute.html?id=7HTrr5656G0C


 * Teaching African American History**

[|6 Teaching Tools for Black History Month]


 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-02-27 at 11.29.04 AM.png link="Listing of Digital Textbooks"]]Listing of Digital Textbooks **
 * ** United States History **
 * ** World and Global History **
 * ** American Government **
 * ** Economics **
 * ** Geography **


 * Books and Resources**

Howard Zinn, //A People's History of the United States//

James Loewen, //Lies My Teacher Told Me//

James Loewen, //Lies Across America//

Ray Raphael, //Founding Myths//

See [|Citizendium] (A citizen's compendium of everything) for an open source complement to Wikipedia.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
 * Children and Youth in History

[|Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States]

[|World History for All of US], National Center for History in the Schools