National Endowment for the Humanities Essay Contest
The grand prize winner of the National Endowment for the Humanities "Idea of America" Essay Contest is a home-schooled student from Colorado.
The student, Rachel Shafer, writes circles around her peers in public schools. And, in her essay, she cites academic sources that are probably unknown to most students in today's academic institutions. For example, she refers to Joseph Ellis’s Founding Brothers. This outstanding biography, which describes the close personal and working relationships among the Founding Fathers, should be standard high school or college reading. Of course, academics are too busy cramming works by Barbara Ehrenreich and Howard Zinn into their syllabi to include such important material.
Rachel Shafer’s understanding of the values invoked and expressed in the Gettysburg Address and The Declaration of Independence can be read here: http://www.wethepeople.gov/essay/archive/2004/2004winner.html
The student, Rachel Shafer, writes circles around her peers in public schools. And, in her essay, she cites academic sources that are probably unknown to most students in today's academic institutions. For example, she refers to Joseph Ellis’s Founding Brothers. This outstanding biography, which describes the close personal and working relationships among the Founding Fathers, should be standard high school or college reading. Of course, academics are too busy cramming works by Barbara Ehrenreich and Howard Zinn into their syllabi to include such important material.
Rachel Shafer’s understanding of the values invoked and expressed in the Gettysburg Address and The Declaration of Independence can be read here: http://www.wethepeople.gov/essay/archive/2004/2004winner.html
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