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With funding from the U.S. Department of Education under the Office of Innovation and Improvement, Teachinghistory.org, also known as the National History Education Clearinghouse, was developed through a collaboration between the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the Stanford History Education Group at Stanford University.
The NCHS has continued to develop materials for U.S. and world history including the Bring History Alive! series and The Big Eras: A Compact History of Humankind for Teachers and Students edited by Ross E. Dunn, professor and co-director of World History for Us All. In addition, the NCHS has published over 70 teaching units in U.S. and world ...
The core purpose of this organization is to lead in the teaching and learning of history. One of the ways that NCHE sets out to accomplish this is to provide a communications network for all advocates of history education. These advocates include but are not limited to; schools, colleges, museums, historical councils, and community groups.
These debates over state-school history curricula in the United States in the mid-1990s were influenced by the culture wars, in which education reform skeptics, including prominent public figures as Lynne Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, and American Enterprise Institute fellows responded to the "Standards" in numerous publications and interviews, starting in October 1994, before its official publication.
A lot of U.S. history is too good to be true — and actually is not. Sometimes fact is ignored, or teachers miss the latest, and these tales are examples.
Close Up programs cater to various high and middle school audiences. Close Up also offers a program for New Americans, specialized programs for Native Americans, Teaching American History (TAH) programs for teachers, and several theme-based programs that enable participants to benefit from Washington's seasonality.
American History and Civics Education Act of 2004 Created 12 grants for institutions chosen for their expertise in history education. Pub. L. 108–474 (text) 2005 Pell Grant Hurricane and Disaster Relief Act Waived conditions of Pell Grants for students affected by major disasters. Pub. L. 109–66 (text) 2005
The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP/CML) is a research center at the City University of New York Graduate Center developing innovative instructional materials and approaches to teaching and learning the social history of the United States.