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To understand the world today we must understand slavery.
Slavery is our country’s origin and was our country’s Achilles' heel.
But this is hard history, and our research has shown schools are failing to teach it. #TeachingHardHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
https://www.splcenter.org/teaching-hard-history-american-slavery …
We found: * High schoolers struggle on even the most basic questions about slavery; * Teachers struggle to provide deep coverage of the subject; * Textbooks fail to comprehensively cover slavery; * States fail to set appropriately high standards.https://www.splcenter.org/20180131/teaching-hard-history …
To reconcile with our past, we must do a better job.
We must have the courage to teach hard history, beginning with slavery.
Our new report from @Tolerance_org shows how. #TeachingHardHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
https://www.tolerance.org/frameworks/teaching-hard-history/american-slavery …
You can test your knowledge of the hard history of American slavery with our 6-question quiz. #TeachingHardHistory #BlackHistoryMonthhttps://www.splcenter.org/data-projects/how-much-do-you-know-about-american-slavery …
Native Americans were “Savages,” the Federal Govt sought to eradicate them. Finally gave them some land to live on, now they want to take that land back and give it to oil interests.
Native Americans have been screwed over way too many times. Leave them be!
Teaching black history is good, but, what about modern day slavery, in the for profit prison system?https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/14086227 …
Like one wrong makes all the subsequent wrongs acceptable???? That view is part of the persistent problem!
That kind of thinking only causes pain, not peace.
Literally #Whitewashing the past does NO ONE any good
In your report (p. 22), you say the following: "The most shocking finding of this survey is that only 8 percent of high school seniors can identify slavery as the cause of the Civil War." https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/tt_hard_history_american_slavery.pdf …
"Almost half of the respondents (48 percent) said tax protests were the cause; it is possible that they confused the Civil War with the Revolutionary War, but that is its own particular problem, given that all of the other questions in the survey were about slavery in some form."
You neglected to point out that two of the questions in the survey (#1 and #5) *did* ask about the Colonies and the Revolutionary War, so the "confusion" is not hard to understand, especially since question #6 asking about that timeframe did include the words "Civil War".
The question in your survey (#17) was "Which was the reason the South seceded from the Union?". It's more likely that too many students don't understand that "South", "Union", and "seceded" together mean the Civil War.
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