The Answer Sheet Archive: History
A Presidents' Day quiz
Test your presidential knowledge with this quiz.
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Valerie Strauss
| February 21, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Whom does Presidents' Day really honor?
Ask half a dozen people who President's Day is meant to honor, and you may get half a dozen different answers. There isn't even universal agreement on whether there is an apostrophe in "presidents."
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Valerie Strauss
| February 21, 2011; 2:00 AM ET |
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History
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abraham lincoln's birthday, george washington's birthday, holidays, lincoln's birthday, national holidays, presidents day, washington's birthday
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Texas may reopen social studies standards for rewrite
Sharp criticism by a conservative think tank of Texas’s new social studies standards has sparked new debate over the controversial issue and may lead to a rrewriting of the standards.
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Valerie Strauss
| February 18, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Ronald Reagan's impact on education today
In the category of "the more things change the more they stay the same," it is interesting to look back at Ronald Reagan's education views on the 100th anniversary of his birth. The issues that were controversial back then -- merit pay, standardized testing, vouchers -- remain so today.
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Valerie Strauss
| February 6, 2011; 11:46 AM ET |
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History, School turnarounds/reform, Standardized Tests, Teacher assessment
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merit pay, reagan, reagan 100, reagan administration, reagan birthday, reagan commemoration, reagan policy, ronald reagan, ronald reagan education, ronald reagan policy, ronald reagan views, standardized testing, vouchers
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JFK's Harvard application: 'Lackluster' applicant
John F. Kennedy's 1935 application to Harvard College is now online, and it shows him to be something less than a superlative applicant.
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Valerie Strauss
| January 24, 2011; 8:23 AM ET |
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History
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college application, college essays, harvard application, harvard college, jfk, jfk anniversary, jfk application, jfk documents, jfk library, john f. kennedy, joseph p. kennedy, kennedy family
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A quiz: Martin Luther King’s unusual education
Martin Luther King Jr., had something of an unusual education. Test yourself on how much you know about it, and then read the answers, which include information that may surprise you about him.
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Valerie Strauss
| January 17, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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about martin luther king, day, facts about king, king and education, king facts, martin luther king, martin luther king day, martin luther king jr., mlk, mlk day, mlk facts
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