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Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies?

The Hechinger Report

As Chris Tims, a high school teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, sees it, history education is about teaching students to synthesize diverse perspectives on the nation’s complicated past. history and civics since at least Reconstruction, the turbulent period that followed the Civil War. This story also appeared in NBC News.