ABSTRACT
The Genocide Education Project has taken the initiative to attend National Council for the Social Studies conferences and interact with teachers who prioritize the teaching of the Armenian Genocide in their classrooms. The mandate processes have attained limited success, but to the present time seven states have adopted some form of educational mandate or guidance relating to the Armenian Genocide. One avenue that has been regularly pursued in an attempt to solidify the issue into curriculum guidelines has been through legislative mandates. In many states, these initiatives have been enacted via grassroots or political movements to adopt measures that would instruct school districts to teach the Holocaust and other genocides. There is research evidence illustrating that teachers are inclined to spend more time on subjects that are tested "and for which scores are used to rate schools' and students' progress" than on those that are not included in state testing programs.
