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Category Archives: BookTV
dilemma: hi-stakes history test ?
September 3, 2006 – 12:49 pm
== UPDATE ==
Bender’s talk will be re-aired on Sunday Sept. 10, 2006 at 3:00 am EDT. See:
http://www.booktv.org/History/index.asp?segID=7137&schedID=449
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See http://www.booktv.org/History/index.asp?segID=7137&schedID=448 for info on a talk by one of my favorite American Historians on his most recent book, which concerns the teaching of American History as part of World History.
During the Q&A, Bender commented on the dilemma of high-stakes [...]
Book-TV notification
September 3, 2006 – 12:46 pm
From time to time, I have posted messages to e-mail lists calling attention to programs on BookTV (http://www.booktv.org/ - weekends on CSPAN 2) that I think my colleagues might want to know about. People have often let me know that they are interested, but that they did not see the message until after the weekend [...]
History: US in the World; also hi-stakes testing
September 3, 2006 – 9:15 am
Bender is right about US & World history; but I disagree with the notion that history can or will really be taught if we have high-stakes testing for history.
“Traipsing” authors on BookTV Aug 26-27
August 26, 2006 – 3:42 pm
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UPDATE: The BookTV page linked below now has a link for a video of this program that you can watch on your computer if you have RealPlayer installed. The URI for the video is http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0806/btv082606_4b.ram .
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Casey Luskin and John G. West, two of the authors of Traipsing into Evolution, will be on CSpan-2’s BookTV this weekend in [...]
