Posted on 07/22/2021 6:10:33 AM PDT by blam
Matthew Spalding, vice president of Washington Operations at Hillsdale College, invited parents and educators to combat left-wing revisionist history with his school’s K-12 “1776 curriculum.”
“It’s a full curriculum, 2000 pages,” Spalding said on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. “It’s 85 lessons. It’s a full set. It’s free to anybody who wants to use it: homeschoolers, private schools, public schools … states if they want to use it. It’s absolutely free to anybody who wants it.”
Spalding described Hillsdale College’s 1776 history program as a corrective against neo-Marxist “identity politics” and “critical race theory” inserted into public education across the U.S.
“It’s our gift, if you will, to this debate,” Spalding said, competing narratives of American history.
Leftist narratives pushed by the 1619 Project market ideology as history, Spalding held.
He remarked, “This debate has nothing to do with history. We think it does. They say it has to do with history, 1619 versus 1776, but … some people currently today — and this happens sometimes, this is called politics — are using history merely as a foil to fight a current political battle.”
“They want to fight about race and public policy in America today,” he continued. “We actually want it to be a discussion about history because our curriculum in a K-12 education should be about America’s history, about its civics, about what the country means, about its principles, how those played out, flaws and all.”
He went on, “We must understand this is not merely a view of history versus another view of history. They’re not about history at all. They’re merely using history. It’s an ideological fight. What’s going on is an ideological struggle, and they’re putting it within the classroom to fight about politics in the classroom...
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A very good post. I am a Hillsdale fan and should spend my time going through this 1776 curriculum. lord knows I’ve read enough fiction this Summer. ;-)
Hillsdale is just up the road.
Nice little town, good school, not too big to swamp the town either, like a big state university.
I did a quick scan of the first High School lessons. My first impression is this is a spectacular work of scholarship and writing. But you’d expect that from Hillsdale.
Wonder if some of this material will be available to read on Kindle or Fire.
HILLDALE needs to team up with ELON MUSK & get a discount for students on STARLINK.
The above and the Free Home School programs in most if not all states can end the tyranny of public schools for your children.
Parents, who truly hate their kids, send them to Public “Schools”!
Posted on 2/16/2021, 3:49:30 PM by Navy Patriot
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