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The American Institute for History Education (AIHE) was founded in 2003 to provide history teachers with high-quality professional development programs, firmly anchored in rich historical content, along with substantive historical lessons, activities, and resources to use in their classrooms. AIHE appreciates the tremendous need for teachers to have access to optimum quality historical content and more advanced resources. Study after study, and results from NAEP testing, demonstrate that American students are not receiving competent history education opportunities. Both students and teachers have been subjected to banal textbooks and programs that barely skim over the crucial issues in American History.
Students need to be engaged in substantive historical content. Only through reading solid, exciting historical narratives, while being engaged in intellectually stimulating activities, and then working with primary source material will students grasp the essential events of American History and proficiently comprehend the crucial issues of modern society.
The American Institute for History Education believes that students will rise to high expectations if teachers provide them with the means. Voluminous empirical and quantitative research verifies this. Students will comprehend abstract ideas and think critically once they have a competent base of knowledge. Thinking skills will increase commensurate with the amount of data students retain. The American Institute for History Education works to provide teachers with the materials to help students analyze erudite historical material, process the information, synthesize substantive data, and subsequently articulate reasoned conclusions.
AIHE Directive: All and every activity at AIHE must have as its focus the improvement of student achievement in the local classroom. In order for AIHE to accomplish this mission, everyone at AIHE must look to provide optimum service to all AIHE clients. In order to provide optimum service, everyone at AIHE takes on the role and mind-set of servant — servant to our clients and servant to the greater good of premium student achievement in the classroom.
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