A History Teacher, even while on hiatus, shows how you can protect your students and point them in the right direction in their research, all at the same time.
Thanks to Google, of course, and a tip of the old scrub brush to A History Teacher.
“Cool Tools”: Making searches safe for students
October 29, 2007
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Fighting malaria with reason
October 29, 2007We can beat malaria without DDT; we can’t beat malaria without bednets.
Editorial from BMJ (née British Medical Journal?) points out that bednets really work, and they work better when distributed free of charge. Nets cost about $5.00 each, but in nations where a good day’s pay is about $1.00, charging for them merely means they won’t be purchased and can’t be used.
Time for Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, and Steve Milloy, to listen to reason, stop bashing Rachel Carson, and start fighting malaria.
Update, February 2009; the original link seems irrecoverable; see also this research, BMJ 2007;335:1023 ( 17 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.39356.574641.55 (published 16 October 2007
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Writing the history texts: What is history?
October 29, 2007History textbook controversies abound, really. Just a list to pull some sources together:
- European history generally, under the EU (from Eurozine)
- Europe, Spanish Civil War
- Europe, how to remember totalitarian governments
- Israel, Israeli Arabic text calls 1948 war “catastrophe” for Palestinians (New York Times)
- Taiwan, what is “national,” what is Chinese?
- Japan and Korea, in 2005
- List of Japan’s textbook controversies from Wikipedia, including most recent issue over mass suicides on Okinawa; a more academic treatment from Charles Cummins at the Washington University of St. Louis
- Controversy in China, 2004; and a biased view in 2007
- Past controversy over Chinese university texts
- For the sake of history, a recounting of the 1947-1948 controversy at the University of Wyoming
- California controversy resolved, over treatment of Hinduism
- Romania, in 1999
- Mexico in 2003, over the 1968 political violence
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Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 