History Standards Approved for K-12, Despite Concerns (by Patrick Anderson, Argus Leader)
http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/education/2015/08/24/history-standards-approved-despite-concerns/32269645/
Early American History Could be a Thing of the Past (by Tess Hedrick, KSFY)
http://www.ksfy.com/home/headlines/Early-American-History-could-be-a-thing-of-the-past-323022481.html
Koch Brothers Group Boasts…
http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/koch-brothers-group-boasts-total-control-of-iowa-and-south-dakota-legislatures-131213?news=851906
America hasn’t got a chance with stupidity like this being vomited from its states.
Et tu SoDak? Et tu?
Heaven forbid American students should learn about the founding principles of our nation and Constitution... I can understand one of the coastal states doing this, but South Dakota?
When these 11th year students enter what is laughingly called “higher education”, there is not nearly as much they shall have to “unlearn” to conform to the standards demanded of the indoctrination centers which were once known as universities.
Maybe there is just “too much stuff” for high school graduates to have to know, so the “higher education” institutions must take over for the inadequacies of an unfinished basic education that was not completed by the sixth grade.
But what is going to remedy the inadequacies of this “higher education”?
Our home schooled kids learn history from A Beka curricula. They have learned much more than I did in the public school system. History is really interesting from a Christian perspective. Public school teaches it from a secular perspective.
Typically, US history is divided into two parts: pre-Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction. Since history is a discipline that continues to expand, apparently there’s not enough time to include everything, so something has to go...History isn’t emphasized much anyway, so it’s not like anything will change. Either it’s not being taught, or the students aren’t listening. It’s beyond sad how little Americans know about our own country.
The only way to cover up that The Democratic Party fought a war trying to preserve slavery is to not teach history that far back.
Primary agenda identified.
The kids are taught that we are a democracy, and that Washington was the first president, and we went from Declaration to Constitution in a very short time. In addition the Articles of Confederation simply don’t exist, and the federalist Papers are not mentioned or gone into.
Some kids think there has always been an income tax, central bank, and gun control.
“People separated from their history are easily persuaded.” —Karl Marx
Is SD dropping a block of history instruction from their curriculum, or will early American history be replaced with some other history instruction?
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Woo Hoo! No more references to “alleged” slavery. If the Confederacy never existed, then neither did that other.....what was it we were talking about?
One of the first major acts of the Carnegie Foundation was to decide to change the United States History was taught. They, with the help of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Guggenheim Fellowship, got together a group of PhD candidates at Oxford and trained them in their new approach. Once they received their degrees they sent them back to the US to begin work.
Norman Dodd, the lead investigator of the Reece Commission on tax exempt foundations in 1953 explains this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYCBfmIcHM&spfreload=10
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
Sounda like the longstanding tug of war in the history biz: those who think history can't be taught without being rooted in the cause and effect narrative, which is inherently fact-heavy vs. those who think all those facts get in the way of critical thinking.
This is wrong on so many levels.
... standards that no longer require instructors to teach the first 100 years of U.S. history ...
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Huge mistake ... well, I’m sure it’s deliberate by the Leftists.
One of the best books I’ve ever read is “George Washington’s Sacred Fire” by Peter A Lillback. He wrote it to refute the claims that Washington was a Deist, but the book shows what an exceptional, God-fearing man Washington was. There was also no doubt in my mind, after reading this book, that God blessed GW in his efforts to start America and how special and exceptional this country was in its founding and should still be today. The book is not required reading for school kids, but learning the history of the country’s founding and the struggles that were overcome in the 1st 100 years should be as well. BTW, the 1st 100 years includes the Civil War.
new curriculum standards that no longer require instructors to teach the first 100 years of U.S. history
First, they change “American” history, to “United States” history to get rid of the racist “American” identity; now they are getting rid of “United States” history altogether.
Well they’re just a bunch of dead, white guys, anyway. /s
The way things are going, they may get rid of the “Washington” before they get rid of the “Redskins.”