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[quote=Anonymous]Re GDS history With a couple notable exceptions, the teachers aren't great and the curriculum isn't well-conceived. In theory, I agree with you that the 9th grade approach sounds promising. In practice, it hasn't worked well. Part of the problem is that an ambitious approach like that requires teachers with a kind of training/background few HS teachers (few profs, for that matter) actually have. Another part of the problem is that history gets treated less as a rigorous scholarly discipline than as a place to locate various advocacy projects. To be clear, I'm NOT saying I reject the school's politics/values. What I'm saying is that advocacy is more effective if you actually learn how/make the effort to analyze and understand issues in greater depth than GDS requires in its history classes. [/quote]
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