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visiting. Among them are: the El Paso Museum of Art, the El Paso
Museum of History, the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Museum and
the Buffalo Soldier Monument at Fort Bliss, the Chamizal National
Memorial, and many, many more. If you are able to spend a few extra
days in the El Paso/Juarez area, you can take in the many great restau-
rants, the zoo, and the ambiance of the border. This will be a meeting
you won't want to miss.
March 6-8, 2003, will be two and a half days packed with history, fun,
and camaraderie. Join your fellow lovers of Texas history--ranchers,
school teachers, historians, the whole range of TSHA members-and we
can guarantee you a good time and more Texas history than you can get
anywhere else. See you in El Paso.
The day before we and approximately eight hundred students and
their extended families (teachers, volunteers, parents, siblings, grand-
parents) gathered for the twenty-second annual Texas History Day on
May 1i -11, Secretary of Education Rod Paige, former superintendent of
the Houston Independent School District, announced the results of the
National Assessment of Educational Progress, an examination measur-
ing proficiency in American history. Administered to a national sample
of twenty-three thousand students in eleven hundred public and private
schools across the nation, the exam suggested, Paige said, that only one
in ten high school seniors could be considered proficient in American
history. The percentage increased a bit for eighth graders and fourth
graders to seventeen percent and eighteen percent respectively-still
"truly abysmal scores," according to one educational expert.
Especially in the light of such statistics, the accomplishments of the
students who took part in Texas History Day continue to astonish. This
year the theme was "Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History," and stu-
dents in grades six through twelve responded through research papers,
exhibitions, performances, and documentaries with topics as varied as
"In a Nutshell: The Pecan Shellers' Strike of 1938," by Amanda C.
Randolph, La Vernia Middle School, La Vernia, to "The East Texas Oil
Boom: Oil Fever Explodes in Boom to End All Booms" by Thomas B.
Miller, Lake Air Middle School, Waco. Such presentations are the result
of dozens, even hundreds, of hours that students put into preparing,
researching, writing, and producing their entry. Parents contributed by
driving their kids to libraries for research, footing long distance tele-
phone bills to interview far-off dignitaries, teaching students how to use
power tools, and by generally being encouraging. Teachers help fire the
students' imaginations with field trips, research techniques, and the2002
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