The fight over new civics education standards isn’t a mere academic squabble. It’s about resisting and rejecting a corrosive left-wing view of America.
The advocates for EAD have smartly put a nonpartisan looking pedagogy at the center of the project, but it doesn’t take a Marx or Foucault to discern the vigorous politics embedded in the method.
Do we really need Jefferson and Witherspoon to help us understand our world today? Yes, because what we know and what we believe shape our individual lives and our civic lives.
Christopher Flannery hopes his podcast will “awaken the better angels of our nature and welcome us into and encourage us to enrich the great American Story.”
“Educating for American Democracy” is the return of Common Core under a new label, this time applied to history and civics. America can only restore its civics education by rejecting EAD.
The Educating for American Democracy project’s “action civics” is the latest in the Left’s efforts to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.”
The radicalization we see in the streets of American cities and the radicalization of American college students may look like two separate things. But they are not.