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Professor challenges Minnesota proposal to teach kids a certain version of U.S. history

Amy Gage
November 13, 2003

'What kids should know about a great nation' may be the aim of Minnesota Education Commissioner Cheri Pierson Yecke, but the proposed academic standards for history and social studies fall far short of that goal, a St. Olaf professor claims. Read the comments of Robert Entenmann, who teaches history and Asian Studies, in a recent opinion piece published in the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.