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Helping Your Child Learn History

By Elaine Wrisley Reed
Illustrated by Brian A. Griffin U.S. Department of Education
Richard W. Riley
Secretary

Office of Educational Research and Improvement
Emerson J. Elliot
Acting Assistant Secretary

This book is in the public domain. Authorization to reproduce it in whole or in part for educational purposes is granted.

Publication of this book was managed by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education. Listing of materials and resources in this book should not be construed or interpreted as an endorsement by the Department of any private organization or business listed herein.

July 1993

Elaine Wrisley Reed is executive secretary of the National Council for History Education, and is a contributing author to the book Historical Literacy: The Case For History in American Schools and to the journal Social Studies and the Young Learner. She was the administrative director of the Bradley Commission on History in Schools, a curriculum specialist for the Educational Research Council, and an elementary classroom teacher in Bradford, Pennsylvania. She received her bachelor's degree from Mansfield University, and master's degree from Baldwin-Wallace College.

Brian A. Griffin is a designer for the San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, California. He was formerly the art director of Kids Today, a weekly children's newspaper published by Gannet Coo., inc. He has won awards from the Society of Newspaper Design, PRINT Regional Design Annual, and the Art Director's Club of Metropolitan Washington.

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