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Schools: U.S. History Out, Environment In
Fox News ^ | February 3, 2010 | Lee Ross

Posted on 02/03/2010 3:51:04 PM PST by khnyny

Change often leads to controversy and that is certainly the case in North Carolina where an effort to revamp the state's education system has some people outraged that high school students will not learn enough American history.

The formula for teaching American history has been pretty simple. Start at the beginning and go forward. But a new proposal under review in North Carolina threatens to disrupt that standard teaching philosophy.

"If our students don't know what happened in world history, and if they don't know what happened in U.S. history from George Washington's presidency all the way up through the Civil War, then they will not be able to grasp the big picture," said Mike Belter, a Social Studies teacher in North Carolina.

The state's on-going curriculum review hits all subjects but it's the proposed changes for high school students learning social studies that have provoked fears. Under the new guidelines, students will graduate without learning enough about world history and key parts of American history including Abraham Lincoln, westward expansion or much else that happened before 1877 when Reconstruction ended, critics say.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: arth; control; education; eu; globalist; godsgravesglyphs; gore; green; greens; historyeducation; leftismoncampus; liberalagenda; liberalprogressivism; liberals; marxist; nea; northcarolina; progressives; thescrapheapof
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To: khnyny

The public school system should be systematically dismantled...


21 posted on 02/03/2010 4:31:30 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: metmom

ping


22 posted on 02/03/2010 5:24:00 PM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: khnyny

From wikepedia:
“Eco-socialism, green socialism or socialist ecology is an ideology merging aspects of Marxism, socialism, green politics, ecology and alter-globalization. Eco-socialists generally believe that the expansion of the capitalist system is the cause of social exclusion, poverty and environmental degradation through globalization and imperialism, under the supervision of repressive states and transnational structures; they advocate the dismantling of capitalism and the state, focusing on collective ownership of the means of production by freely associated producers and restoration of the commons.”

I would say that most of the extreme environmental groups that appeal on projects on federal lands or sue on endangered species and environmental causes in the Western United States embrace tenets of ecosocialism. They commonly have ties with education. http://portland.indymedia.org/


23 posted on 02/03/2010 5:29:58 PM PST by marsh2
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To: bicyclerepair
I wish that after Sarah is elected that she would can the federal dept. of ed.

Perhaps she can be persuaded.

When Carter formed the Department of Education in '77, it was widely viewed as political payback to the educational establishment for it's support of his quest for the presidency. Thus viewed, at the time the move was deemed acceptable (believe it or not!).

However, times have changed. The political winds are changing, too. No one owes them anything nowadays. More starkly, we have no need of them today!

So, yes, maybe Sarah can be persuaded.

CA....

24 posted on 02/03/2010 5:39:46 PM PST by Chances Are (Whew! Seems I've found that silly grin again!)
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To: khnyny

It makes perfect sense to me why the Founding Fathers should be left out of the American History being taught in our nation’s public schools. After all, since BEFORE 9/11 FEMA instructors have been teaching that the Founding fathers were our nation’s first TERRORISTS. Click link...

http://sbynews.blogspot.com/2009/12/shocking-fema-training-video-founding.html

WHERE am I living?

I can no longer recognize the America I’ve known all my life.


25 posted on 02/03/2010 6:03:30 PM PST by BIOCHEMKY (I love liberty more than I hate war.)
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To: khnyny
Interesting , they are doing the same thing in the EU. It helps control future generations.

EU history will be all the history taught in schools UK

The latest initiative by our "Children's Secretary", Ed Balls, is to abolish what remains of fact-based teaching of history and geography in our schools. He plans to "roll them together into themed lessons on social issues such as global warming"

The ruthless drive of educational progressives to eliminate history-teaching from schools has been under way since the 1960s. aim is to ensure that children know nothing about their country's past or how the world came to be as it is, leaving their minds blankly open to whatever vacuous progressive claptrap is fed to them.

In his desire to chuck history onto what Lenin called "the scrapheap of history",

26 posted on 02/03/2010 6:18:52 PM PST by opentalk
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To: khnyny

I tutor in an afterschool program that is being heavily funded by the feds for intervention in math for k-5 kids. We were specifically told not to spend time on basic facts. We are encouraged to use “rich” problems like....If I am building a neighborhood of homes and can use the numbers 3, 5, and 6 for the addresses, how many homes can I build? It is so sad to see these kids being pushed to do fractions and higher level algebra everyday when they are counting on their fingers for every addition and subtraction step and don’t know the basic steps of a multiple digit multiplication and division problems.


27 posted on 02/03/2010 6:20:51 PM PST by proudtobeanamerican1 (Prayers Up! It's our last defense!)
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To: Unam Sanctam

Here’s something that may be of interest. It appears that all the presidents listed and linked to on this site take you to the current White House.

Apparently it was put together by Jim Britton, from the UNC School of Information and Library Science.

http://www.ibiblio.org/lia/president/pressites/PresidentS-list2.html#11to20


28 posted on 02/03/2010 6:24:10 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: BIOCHEMKY

NC is very liberal. I lived there for 8 years and finally left 5 years ago because of the horrible schools. One AP English teacher who was a big John Edwards fan verbally and academically abused my child one time too many. Luckily, my husband has very transferable job skills but we took a major loss on the house we had to sell. It was worth it to get out of that state. I am not surprised by this development at all.


29 posted on 02/03/2010 6:38:26 PM PST by BessMarvin
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To: khnyny

If the education system were on our way, we’d teach U.S. history from the colonial era onward.


30 posted on 02/03/2010 7:11:49 PM PST by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; Aggie Mama; agrace; AliVeritas; AlmaKing; AngieGal; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

31 posted on 02/03/2010 7:20:16 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

Give the quality of public school history instruction, that might not be such a bad thing.


32 posted on 02/03/2010 7:24:26 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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To: Touch Not the Cat
"Creagh Dubh!!", Cousin! '-)
33 posted on 02/03/2010 7:27:33 PM PST by TXnMA (D'Aleo re Hansen's "GISS" temperature database: "Non Gradus Anus Rodentum!")
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To: proudtobeanamerican1

I’m a tutor, and thank God, I’m not bound by those regulations. I start with the basics and then move on. Sure it takes longer but I get results.


34 posted on 02/04/2010 3:20:39 AM PST by BenKenobi (;)
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To: kalee

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35 posted on 02/04/2010 6:01:27 AM PST by Cailleach
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To: bicyclerepair

“I wish that after Sarah is elected that she would can the federal dept. of ed.”

Yeah, I wished that Reagan and two Bushes would do that.


36 posted on 02/04/2010 9:12:21 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: khnyny
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37 posted on 02/04/2010 9:16:55 AM PST by davidlachnicht ("IF WE ARE ALL TO BE TARGETS, THEN WE ALL MUST BE SOLDIERS.")
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To: cripplecreek

“Apparently it was put together by Jim Britton, from the UNC School of Information and Library Science.”

Shirley it must have been hacked.


38 posted on 02/04/2010 9:41:26 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: proudtobeanamerican1

My daughter just started 5th grade. When she was in 3rd she could add subtract multiply and divide. However, she only knew the algorithms and she didn’t really have an understanding of what she was doing. She really didn’t understand our base ten system and place value.

We found an incredible math program and started over. It was very childish for her at the beginning but the program is based on an asian model of math and was very different than anything we had been exposed to before.

If she had been in public school they would have kept pushing her through and she would have been math illiterate like I was until I started to teach her this program. Now she is understanding math and doing well.

Without a strong foundation there is no hope of moving on to higher levels with understanding.


39 posted on 02/04/2010 9:46:07 AM PST by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
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To: Cailleach

Already read it, sigh. Homeschool is the answer.


40 posted on 02/04/2010 2:23:27 PM PST by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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