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Reimagining American History Education. Princeton, NJ: The Woodrow Wilson National Fellow -ship Foundation.  \n© 2019 The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation  \n# TABLE OF CONTENTS\n\nINTRODUCTION    3  \n# SECTION I: CURRENT PRACTICE    4\n\n1. Are students required to study American history?    4  \n2. Are teachers prepared to teach American history?    4  \n3. Are the current curriculum and instruction effective?   5  \n4. Has knowledge of American history declined?    6  \n# SECTION II: RESEARCH ON LEARNING    7\n\n1. Activating and engaging students    7  \n2. Hands-on activities   8  \n3. Stimulating curiosity    9  \n4. Assessing learning and providing feedback    11  \n# SECTION III: EXEMPLARY HISTORY EDUCATION PROGRAMS   13\n\n1. History Detectives (New-York Historical Society)    13  \n2. DBQuest (iCivics)    14  \n3. Reading Like a Historian (Stanford History Education Group)    15  \n4. Hamilton Education Program (Gilder Lehrman Institute)    17  \n5. Reacting to the Past (Barnard College)    18  \n6. HistoryQuest (Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation)    20  \n# SECTION IV: THE WW AMERICAN HISTORY INITIATIVE  21\n\nAPPENDICES  \nAppendix A: Current U.S. history requirements and standardsfor elementary and secondary schools    24  \nAppendix B: Race/ethnicity of public school students and teachers, by year    42Appendix C: Additional Projects of Interest    46  \n1  \nREIMAGINING AMERICAN HISTORY EDUCATION  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nThis report looks to the future of American history education. The report grows outof national and state polls that the Foundation conducted in late 2018 on Americans’knowledge of the history of their country. The Foundation’s initial poll found that two out ofthree Americans were incapable of passing the U.S. citizenship test and led the Foundationto conduct a study of American history education—what itis and what it should become.This report examines current practice in teaching American history, discusses the researchon the most effective ways to learn American history, describes outstanding programs thatincorporate these approaches, and announces a new Woodrow Wilson initiative that seeksto apply the research to bolster the teaching and learning of American history across thecountry.  \nThe Foundation is undertaking this initiative in the belief that knowledge of Americanhistory is essential to  \n• establishing the engaged and informed citizenry needed to preserve a democratic society;  \n• reestablishing the common bonds that all Americans share in a time of deep nationalpolitical, economic, and social divisions in which Americans’ differences overshadow ourcommonalities;  \n• understanding the pastin a time of profound, continuing, and accelerating change in orderto make sense of a chaotic present and inchoate future, as history is both an anchor in atime when change assails us and a laboratory for studying the changes that are occurring;and  \n• educating a generation of Americans who think like historians, who know how to askquestions about the present and future rooted in the past, and to marshal the data toanswer those questions.  \nThe initial poll found out that two outof three Americans were incapable ofpassing the U.S. citizenship test.  \n3  \nREIMAGINING AMERICAN HISTORY EDUCATION  \n4  \n# SECTION I: CURRENT PRACTICE\n\nThe Foundation carried out a study of current practice in American history education withthe goal of learning why Americans performed so poorly on the citizenship test. 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