80-Year Holiday From History. It’s Over.
We’ve had an 80-year holiday from history — a brief pause in the centuries-long cycle of exclusion, scapegoating and violence. That holiday is now over.As the school year wraps up, and with 2025 marking 80 years since the end of World War II, it’s time to ask hard questions about what we’re teaching — and what we’re missing.
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