A Short History of the Standards

California adopts a pioneering history-social sciences framework that Charlotte Crabtree and Diane Ravitch helped write.

Under the leadership of Lynne V. Cheney, the National Endowment for the Humanities publishes American Memory, a status report of humanities education in the schools. Crabtree consulted on the project.

The endowment awards a three-year grant to the University of California at Los Angeles to launch the National Center for History in the Schools. Crabtree, a professor of education at the university who wrote the winning proposal, is named the director of the center, and Gary B. Nash, a historian at UCLA, is...