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AHA in the News

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Current Events in Historical Context

The AHA’s Criteria for Standards in History/Social Studies/Social Sciences were featured in a South Florida Sun Sentinel article by Sylvia Gurinsky. Gurinsky’s essay discusses the effects of lived experience on children’s perceptions of history and quotes a portion of the Criteria for Standards that advocates teaching students to “ask questions about that past that can be applied to contemporary issues.”