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ch-349	Evans, Ronald W.	This Happened in America: Harold Rugg and the Censure of Social Studies	2008	7	.pdf	application/pdf	5550	301	56	Criticism of the Rugg social studies textbooks and program materialized from the concerns of several individuals and groups who held a competing definition of “the American way” and a vision of America’s future quite different from the one advanced by Harold Rugg and other “frontier thinkers.” The Rugg story is also important today because social studies as a broad, interdisciplinary and issues-centered field is currently endangered: reports on classroom practice find a pattern of instruction focused on content acquisition and a fact-myth-legend approach to history; the revival of history and mania for standards and high stakes tests are increasing an emphasis upon traditional history and narrowing the range of issues and questions discussed in schools.	cache/ch-349.pdf	txt/ch-349.txt