What is a “Student-Centered Education” in a History Classroom?

And why it matters for our civil discourse

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In ​Why Learn History (when it’s already on your phone),​ Sam Wineburg argues that “shorn of knowledge, we become caged by the present and turn the past into a faded and inferior copy of the world we already know. Our ignorance gladly issues invitations to stereotypes to fill in the gaps” (Wineburg, 2018). Therein…