CHAPTER 13: WHAT IS THE RESULT OF

TEACHING HISTORY LIKE THIS?

1 Scopes trial transcript, excerpt at “Day 7” at
law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/day7.htm , 9/2006.

2 Jules Henry, Culture Against Man (New York: Random House, 1963), 287.

3 Jungle Brothers, “Acknowledge Your Own History,” c. 1989. This African
American rap group calls history HIS story, meaning “the Man’s.”

4 Greg Murry, e-mail, 2/2001.

5 Linda McNeil, “Defensive Teaching and Classroom Control,” in Michael W.
Apple and Lois Weis, eds., Ideology and Practice in Schooling (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1983), 128-41.

6 Robert B. Everhart, “Classroom Management,” in Apple and Weis, eds.,
Ideology and Practice in Schooling, Ch. 7.

7 Probably the most important studies decrying what high school graduates
don’t know about history and geography are by Diane Ravitch and Chester E.
Finn Jr., What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? (New York: Harper and Row,
1987), and the National Geographic Society, Geography: An International
Gallup Survey (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1988). See
also Allen Bragdon, Can You Pass These Tests? (New York: Harper and Row,
1987), 129-40, comparing 1976 and 1943 results. The National Assessment of
Educational Progress also decried U.S. high school seniors’ knowledge of
American history in 1994 and 2001. In 2006, however, they saw a bit of
progress: the proportion scoring “Advanced” and “Proficient” increased in
twelve years from 12 percent to 14 percent. “U.S. History 2006” at
nces.ed.govtnations reportcard/pdf/main2006/2007474_ l.pdf.

8 Ravitch and Finn, What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? 49.

9 W. K. Haralson, “Objections [to The American Adventure]” (Longview, TX:
n.d., typescript, distributed by Mel Gabler’s Educational Research Analysts,
1993), 4.

10 John Goodlad, A Place Called School (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983),