News & Observer editorial for February 10, 2010: Who knew that high school history had such a vocal constituency? A proposal to alter the state’s public school U.S. history curriculum…
Education Week reports on controversies over social studies standards in a handful of states, including North Carolina. In the article, NC State history professor Holly Brewer cuts through the NC…
Two weeks after the story broke, the NC Public School Forum finally responded to proposed changes in the state’s social studies curriculum. According to the editorial comment published in their…
Dr. Holly Brewer, associate professor of history at NC State: “The claim by DPI officials that more history will be taught under the new proposals is misleading.” (News & Observer…
The Technician reports on concerns from NC State professor Holly Brewer about changes to the K-12 history curriculum being considered by the state. Brewer and three others were outside the…
From an article in today’s News & Observer, The recent uproar over proposed changes to the history curriculum in North Carolina public schools is not a conservative-vs.-liberal issue, said N.C.…
An item in “Under the Dome” quotes N.C. State history professor Holly Brewer’s concerns about the proposed changes in North Carolina’s public school history curriculum. You might remember that Brewer…
This week’s Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features a conversation with N.C. State University historian Holly Brewer about John Locke’s thoughts concerning slavery. Michael Moore’s guest Daily Journal focuses on…
Some college students would rather shell out cash for someone else?s work than spend time researching and writing their own essays. George Leef explores the impact of ?essay mills? during…
Some historians have tried to discredit John Locke’s contributions to the history of freedom and liberty by casting him as a supporter of the institution of slavery. The historical record…
Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue and Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory are making their case to become North Carolina?s next governor. John Hood compares the candidates in the next edition of Carolina…
Dr. Holly Brewer recently told a Shaftsbury group that colonial and revolutionary history is being left out of the North Carolina high school history curriculum. In a Triad Business Journal…