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BUG JUG posted:Professional historian take: best practice for HS history -- if it's general US, and students are getting an hour a day -- should start in 1609 and get to the American Revolution in 2 weeks, 3 if you want to do a unit on colonial slavery (which I think you can usually push off to the Antebellum with minimal loss of understanding). From there 4 weeks to the Civil War. Another 3-4 weeks to get to 1900, and then the rest of the class should essentially be the American Century up until 2001. I.e.: you should get to 1900 by Christmas break at the latest. When I was in high school.the Georgia legislature was debating having US history jump from the revolutionary war straight to reconstruction.
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My world history teacher was from Boston who served 20 years in navy intelligence before becoming a southern high school football coach who taught history on the side. He had a way of making every class a story instead of a list of facts. He also dunked hard on the states rights kids when we got to the Atlantic slave trade. He's also one of the two vets who told me I was a loving idiot for wanting to throw away a college scholarship to enlist after 9-11. Thank Yahweh, Christ, Allah, Vishnu, Ahura Mazda, Loki, Quetzalcoatl etc. That I listened to them instead of my chud uncles who apparently still tell the family I'm not a real man because I didn't enlist in the marines.
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The past couple decades have seen incredible advances in mathematics and computing plus billions spent on satellites and supercomputers resulting in long-range forecasts of such accurate that meteorologist of the WWII era would accuse you of witchcraft. Meanwhile that entire infrastructure is crumbling from lack of investment and the EU is overtaking the US because they have newer satellites and supercomputers.
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May 27, 2020 14:41
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Liftoff scheduled for 1522 EDT, TV coverage starting at 1100 EDT.
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