U.S. history teachers to attend Armenian Genocide courses for first time

PanARMENIAN.Net - History teachers from U.S. schools will for the first time attend professional training courses on the Armenian Genocide, according to Regina Galstyan, a researcher at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Sputnik Armenia.

"These courses will be the first in Armenia not only for American but also for foreign educators in general," Galstyan said, reminding that the AGMI regularly holds such classes for Armenian teachers.

There is no single educational program for schools in the United States, which means each state makes decisions independently, with departments of education in state governments also making policy decisions.

That is why educators in the United States may include individual elements in their curriculum, such as the story of the Holocaust or the Armenian Genocide in general history courses or social studies.

Now, 15 such teachers (no Armenians among them) will participate in the courses organized by the Genocide Museum-Institute.

On April 24, 1915, a large group of Armenian intellectuals was rounded up and assassinated in Constantinople by the Ottoman government. On April 24, 2022, Armenians worldwide will be commemorating the 107th anniversary of the Genocide which continued until 1923. Some three dozen countries, hundreds of local government bodies and international organizations have so far recognized the killings of 1.5 million Armenians as Genocide. Turkey denies to this day.