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To: An H-Net List for Teaching Social Studies in Secondary Schools <H-HIGH-S@H-NET.MSU.EDU> Subject: Re: FW: information on high school history Many thanks for all the prompt replies! Sara Trindade On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Greg Cannon <gregcannon1@yahoo.com> wrote: > Ms. Trindade, > > I'm a high school history teacher in Texas. Our school doesn't have much > autonomy about things like what history program to teach, how many hours > per week, or how many years of history students take. The years are decided > by the state; the school district has a little autonomy about how many > hours per week, but not much. Each school and each teacher has some > autonomy on what our class is like. My department (social studies, which > includes geography, world history, u.s. history, government, and economics) > decides what pace we cover topics at, and we make some other group > decisions, but each teacher has some autonomy on our curriculum. What else > would you like to know? > > Greg Cannon > El Paso High School > > --- On *Tue, 1/10/12, Michael Hutchison <mhutch@NWCABLE.NET>* wrote: > > > From: Michael Hutchison <mhutch@NWCABLE.NET> > Subject: FW: information on high school history > To: H-HIGH-S@H-NET.MSU.EDU > Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 5:17 PM > > > From: Sara Trindade <trindade.sara@gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=trindade.sara@gmail.com> > > > Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:08:38 +0000 > To: An H-Net List for Teaching Social Studies in Secondary Schools > <H-HIGH-S@H-NET.MSU.EDU <http://mc/compose?to=H-HIGH-S@H-NET.MSU.EDU>> > Subject: information on high school history > > > I'm a PhD student and history teacher in Portugal. > I'm currently comparing high school history in Portugal and some US > States and I'm trying to find relevant and legal information on > history programs, credits and hours of study/years in Texas, > California, d. of. Columbia and Massachusetts. I know that each state > has autonomy but I also need to know if every school also has any kind > of autonomy, specially to decide what history program to teach, how > many hours per week and how many years. > All help is very much welcome. > Thanks! > -- > Sara Dias Trindade > http://coimbra.academia.edu/SaraTrindade > > -- Sara Dias Trindade http://coimbra.academia.edu/SaraTrindade
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