6 and the 2020 riots indicate people don’t understand our political system… If we don’t teach young people about that, we’re going to lose it,” Maranto said, noting an uneducated citizenry forfeits civil engagement.
“The thing we’ve lost,” Maranto told The Federalist, is how to “prepare people for democracy.” Robert Maranto, the 21st-century chair in leadership and professor of education policy at the University of Arkansas, is one of 15 advisors who collaborated on the project. “This is how you drive out everything that’s no good in education.” “Soft standards actually make for a more unequal society,” Randall said, adding the new model prioritizes flexibility and high standards as a better alternative.
“We don’t want identical standards,” Randall told The Federalist, who sold the model as flexible yet rigorous in stark contrast to incumbent programming that’s become watered down in the name of equity. State leaders in Rhode Island, Ohio, Washington, and Kentucky have already shown a particular interest in adopting the K-12 curriculum.
“It’s therefore meant to have broad appeal for the United States,” Randall said, who highlighted the adaptability of the new standards to best fit the local needs of institutions that choose to use them. Those were able to garner approval from Democrat policymakers. The new standards from the NAS’s Civic Alliance build off a Massachusetts framework developed under the state’s then-Republican Gov. In October of the same year, the NAS called for the project’s Pulitzer Prize to be revoked over substantive inaccuracies. According to the Pulitzer Center, the New York Times’ fraudulent “1619 Project”of revisionist history was embedded in 4,500 classrooms nationwide by the summer of 2020. The classroom obsession with K-12 curricula infected with wokeness is getting worse, warranting the standards to replace new status quo. Ohio Northern University Law Professor Bruce Frohnen, who served as a consultant on developing the academic program, said the current direction of American education has “gotten to the point where it is life and death for our culture and for our constitutional republic.”Įducators today have bred “two generations of hostility towards America as a racist, sexist, homophobic system that’s irredeemably evil,” Frohnen told The Federalist. “The crucial thing is to restore social studies instruction that teaches the story of liberty, the story of our country that is not politicized, that is not unrigorous,” Randall told The Federalist. Much curricula, said David Randall, the executive director of Civics Alliance coordinating the effort, is “confusing,” “badly written,” and “terribly political,” with an agenda that’s erased the defining concepts of American exceptionalism from the classroom. Some activists in our schools, public and private alike, are so antagonistic toward our culture, without recognizing what they owe to it, that they seek to erase our worthy history of liberty from the curriculum. Some educators are so caught up in pedagogical ‘theory’ that they have forgotten that facts come first. Far too many schools have wandered from these touchstones.
Rather, these should be the three touchstones of American social studies instruction. “ Love, liberty, and the law – these are the touchstones of American social studies instruction,” the new standards’ introduction reads.