National History Day’s Executive Director, Cathy Gorn, spoke with Great.com about improving the teaching and learning of history in middle and high schools in the USA, and how research projects allow children to be creative and independent thinkers.
The decisions that affect our daily lives are meaningless without historical context. It is by engaging with the past that we can begin to understand how our country is really run.
Cathy Gorn
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