The Nation; Booklet That Upset Mrs. Cheney Is History

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  LA Times on Oct 8, 2004:

The Nation; Booklet That Upset Mrs. Cheney Is History; The Department of
Education destroys 300,000 parent guides to remove references to national
standards.;

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Jean Merl. Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles,
Calif.: Oct 8, 2004. pg. A.1

Archived here:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1008-05.htm


WASHINGTON =AD The Education Department this summer destroyed more than=20
300,000 copies of a booklet designed for parents to help their children=20
learn history after the office of Vice President Dick Cheney's wife=20
complained that it mentioned the National Standards for History, which she=
=20
has long opposed.

In June, during a routine update, the Education Department began=20
distributing a new edition of a 10-year-old how-to guide called "Helping=20
Your Child Learn History." Aimed at parents of children from preschool=20
through fifth grade, the 73-page booklet presented an assortment of advice,=
=20
including taking children to museums and visiting historical sites.


Extremely troubling. That's a pretty god-awful example of spending the=20
taxpayers' money and also a pretty god-awful example of interference =AD=20
intellectual interference. If that's not Big Brother or Big Sister, I don't=
=20
know what is.

The booklet included several brief references to the National Standards for=
=20
History, which were developed at UCLA in the mid-1990s with federal=20
support. Created by scholars and educators to help school officials design=
=20
better history courses, they are voluntary benchmarks, not mandatory=20
requirements.

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