The United States has blinded us with the standard approach of history class, because of the thought that students have when they think of the course. History should also be taught to expand the knowledge of students. History in all levels schooling needs more improvement. Because in the class students are taught from a different perspective and the books are old and should be reconstructed for more information. Also, there should be involvement to make students even want to learn about their history. The books that are written for schools should have no cover ups and filters to show what really happens in our history. Our active textbooks show only one viewpoint and certain events or viewpoints that would make the U.S. look bad. But I believe that history should be written by qualified historians that aren’t prejudiced. We should have the history books and classes set up like this so that our history books have the honest truth and best way of telling history, and also shown in many different perspectives. For example, wars involving multiple nations such as World War 1 should show the routes …show more content…
Schools in this day and age focus primarily on test scores and less on the curriculum of history. Therefore students aren’t being graded on the actual intellect of their minds, but are being graded on what’s expected of them. They’re not able to truly show their true capabilities. History is a core curriculum and should be treated as such, by simply raising the expectation that we set for our teachers and our professors and the way they teach their students. Teachers could try different styles/tactics to make students active during the course. Doing so students would be more involved and not stressed when the test come around. Therefore the teachers educating would make more sense to the students following