Sam Wineburg on American high school history teachers

Among high school history teachers across the country, only 18% have majored (or even minored) in the subject they now teach.

~ Sam Wineburg, Stanford University education professor, “Shouldn’t Teachers of History Have Majored in History?,” Los Angeles Times, February 24, 2005

(Cited by Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism, p. 175 by Jeff Riggenbach.)