Press Release

 

Contact:

Arnita A. Jones
Tel. (202) 544-2422, Fax (202) 544-8307
Date:

June 4, 2007

 
Subject:

AHA Council Endorses the National Council for History Education's Statement on Teacher Qualifications

For Immediate Release

Upon recommendation from the Teaching Division, the AHA Council endorsed the National Council for History Education's Statement on Teacher Qualifications.

Last June, the Council asked the Teaching Division to write a document on K-12 history teacher qualifications. While reviewing materials in the preparation of such a document, the Teaching Division was impressed by the National Council for History Education's new Statement on Teacher Qualifications. The Teaching Division decided the issue would be much more clear and simple without yet another statement of standards, when the National Council for History Education had already approved an excellent statement.

 

 

The American Historical Association is the oldest and largest professional historical organization in the United States, bringing together nearly 5,000 institutions and more than 14,000 individuals, including college and university faculty, public historians, independent scholars, archivists, librarians, and secondary school teachers. The Association was organized in 1884 and chartered by the United States Congress in 1889; its establishment coincided with the professionalization of history as a discipline in the United States. Over the years, the Association has changed as the discipline and profession have changed, but its central mission has remained unaltered: the advancement of historical knowledge.

To meet and address the varied needs of its members, the Association publishes the American Historical Review, the major journal of record for the historical profession in the United States, and Perspectives, the major national news monthly of the profession. The Association's annual meeting, which is held during the first week of January, is the largest annual gathering of historians in the United States.

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