Although “Our Virginia: Past and Present,” the controversial history textbook that claimed that “[t]housands of Southern blacks fought in the Confederate ranks, including two black battalions under the command of Stonewall Jackson,” was revised after that claim was challenged and other inaccuracies were identified, the updated version, which has been approved by the commonwealth’s Board of Education, still has errors, the Huffington Post reports. As the Virginian-Pilot reports, one college professor who reviewed the revised edition this summer, George Mason University’s Zachary Schrag, noticed “dubious quotations, misleading images and maps depicting inaccurate borders. His list of errors–including a reference to the “United States Navel Academy”–fills nearly four pages.”
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Teaching aids research skills of grad students, study says
Graduate students in the “hard” sciences who teach in addition to engaging in research greatly improve their research skills compared with graduate students who undertook research alone, according to a new study, reports the New York Times. The study, published last week in the journal Science, found that “teaching experience can contribute substantially to the improvement of essential research skills.” Researchers on the study came from the University of Virginia, the University of South Carolina, the University of Texas at Austin and Zayed University, in the United Arab Emirates…
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