Despite owning a passion for teaching history, Stanley Schultz learned a long time ago that it’s no easy task to keep the undivided attention of the average student. So any opportunity to bring a subject matter to life in a classroom or lecture hall has long been embraced by the emeritus professor of history at UW-Madison.
….A new education project announced Tuesday in downtown Madison could help bring history to life for roughly 50,000 state students in grades 5 through 12.
Called “Life During Wartime,” the $940,000 project is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Not only will the project feature an unprecedented partnership among public school teachers and historians from the UW-Madison and Madison Area Technical College faculty, but those associated with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum will use its vast array of resources to help bring history to life in area schools, including those in the Madison Metropolitan School District.