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Julie Hoffman Kemp pointed out this article on the H-Teach listserv. To read the entire article, go to www.latimes.com and do a search for Wineburg and it should be the first entry.

COMMENTARY
A History of Flawed Teaching


By Sam Wineburg, Sam Wineburg, author of "Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts" (Temple University Press, 2001), is a professor in Stanford's School of Education.

Imagine this: Nearly a third of the students who apply to Stanford's master's in teaching program to become history teachers have never taken a single college course in history. Outrageous? Yes, but it's part of a well-established national pattern. Among high school history teachers across the country, only 18% have majored (or even minored) in the subject they now teach.

Our TAH grants like Project eHIKES and Project Primary Sources are helping buck this trend. . . . .