William J. Bennett is a contributor to CNN, a published author, served as U.S. secretary of education
from 1985 to 1988 and director of the Office of National Drug Control
Policy under President George H.W. Bush. CNN recently featured a commentary that we at History Education Hawaii call to your attention. We think it's worth reading, and hopefully you'll concur. Click here.
The first paragraph of Bennett's piece is excerpted below. We've linked an article he references as well as an innovative teaching curriculum by Josh Hoekstra, Teach with Tournaments:
In a typical, unassuming classroom at
Rosemount High School in the suburbs of Minneapolis, U.S. history
teacher Josh Hoekstra had a very novel idea about how the subject is
taught. The 39-year-old husband
and father of three has been teaching U.S. history for 13 years. He's
seen firsthand the demise of U.S. history education, now our high school
seniors' worst subject. This school year, after
watching his students' intense interest in college basketball's March
Madness tournament (rather than school), Hoekstra invented his own
teaching curriculum, called Teach With Tournaments, to transform U.S. history content into a similar competitive, student-driven tournament.
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