{"id":1529100,"date":"2022-06-27T07:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T11:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529100"},"modified":"2022-06-27T07:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T11:50:38","slug":"heres-what-your-childs-school-should-be-teaching-about-american-history-and-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-what-your-childs-school-should-be-teaching-about-american-history-and-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s What Your Child\u2019s School Should Be Teaching About American History And Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fheres-what-your-childs-school-should-be-teaching-about-american-history-and-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529100&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/5421578112_cb9d0746bf_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The United States\u2019s education institutions were almost entirely formed for the major purposes of developing good citizens and, usually, faithful Christians. It is no secret that today most of America\u2019s education institutions do the opposite. The result is an existential threat to the nation as its enemies work to destroy the most prosperous, most equal, and most free civilization in world history. <\/p>\n<p>In a refreshingly positive, intellectually sound, and action-minded response to this national crisis, a group of top-notch scholars releases today a recommended curriculum blueprint for the K-12 study of American history and government. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/civicsalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AmericanBirthright.pdf\">American Birthright<\/a>\u201d is at once a redress of curricular grievances and a plan of action for the millions of American patriots who see the moral and intellectual injuries most American schools inflict on the rising generation and therefore the nation as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>As the document\u2019s introduction notes, \u201cToo many Americans have emerged from our schools ignorant of America\u2019s history, indifferent to liberty, filled with animus against their ancestors and their fellow Americans, and estranged from their country.\u201d This course of study seeks to address these major problems that result partly from a lack of accurate and patriotic American history instruction.<\/p>\n<p>The document offers a set of academically robust guidelines for K-12 social studies curriculum that parents can ask their local and state school boards to adopt in the place of what now is largely anti-American curriculum standards. This is not just a K-12 curriculum outline, it is a bold American educational philosophy. The recommendations are a product of the <a href=\"https:\/\/civicsalliance.org\/\">Civics Alliance<\/a>, coordinated by the apolitical and highly respected National Association of Scholars. <\/p>\n<p>The alliance is a truly bipartisan coalition that includes highly respected scholars such as Glenn Loury of Brown University; Sandra Stotsky of the University of Arkansas; Stanley Kurtz of the Ethics and Public Policy Center; Harvey Mansfield of Harvard University; and Paul Rahe and Wilfred McClay of Hillsdale College (I am a more humble coalition supporter). You can also become a signatory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nas.org\/blogs\/article\/the-civics-alliance-open-letter-and-curriculum-statement\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s inside this document? \u201cAmerican Birthright provides the content knowledge in history, geography, civics, and economics that American citizens need to know so that they can preserve their liberty,\u201d the introduction states. The standards give recommended primary source documents, as well as biographies, American folk songs, literature, and other materials.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the document recommends that fifth graders learn how town meetings and the common law affected the early development of American colonial governments. It recommends second graders learn the national anthem and other patriotic songs such as \u201cAmerica, the Beautiful,\u201d as well as learning about the lives of significant Americans such as Whittaker Chambers, Rosa Parks, Sacagawea, Clarence Thomas, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican Birthright\u201d would have eighth-graders trace the development of Western Civilization back to the days of Hammurabi, to ancient Egypt, ancient Israel, and ancient Greece. It would have ninth graders read William Blackstone, the Rule of Saint Benedict, the Magna Carta, and Martin Luther\u2019s 95 Theses. Indeed, this curriculum blueprint aims at excellence, not just box-checking, and its recommended primary sources could be profitably studied by Americans of all ages and stations in life as an exercise in civic fidelity and growth. <\/p>\n<p>I have read thousands of pages of what are called curriculum standards since the days of Common Core, and reading this set was a refreshing surprise. Its learning goals and plan for achieving those goals are clear and comprehensible to any literate person, which is in fact one aim of the enterprise. <\/p>\n<p>Usually what pass for curriculum \u201cstandards\u201d is essentially subliterate \u2014 so full of meaning-lite education jargon as to be almost incomprehensible. Go read your own state\u2019s so-called curriculum standards to see this yourself. Jargon is one way the education bureaucracy resists accountability to parents and voters. If principals, parents, and the like can\u2019t understand what teachers are supposed to do, they can\u2019t hold them accountable for it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican Birthright,\u201d on the other hand, is readable, clear, and informative. Any parent could use the document to plan out his or her own course of after-school or homeschool study, as could any teacher or school district. And if a parent or school did so, they would graduate students far more civically minded and responsible than almost all American schools do today.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why parents need to approach their schools, legislatures, and state boards of education and ask that start using \u201cAmerican Birthright\u201d as their guide to U.S. history and government curricula immediately. It is also a useful document to use to measure the quality of civics and other instruction in a given school district. <\/p>\n<p>Many school districts are considered to be \u201cgood\u201d when they in fact add very little, if anything, to children\u2019s natural gifts received from productive and intact homes. They coast on reputations that others\u2019 work and virtues have earned. Measuring their curriculum and reading materials against this high-quality benchmark will give parents an accurate assessment of the actual quality of their children\u2019s schools or potential schools. <\/p>\n<p>Many will likely find that their schools do not measure up. Then it\u2019s time to work to improve that situation, either by internal advocacy or leaving to find a truly good school, or both. <\/p>\n<p>State lawmakers have zero legitimate excuses for failing to require this level of American history education in government-run schools immediately. Those who do not are failing to uphold their oaths to the U.S. Constitution and the people of their states by presiding over rampant anti-American instruction in American schools. These scholars have done a public service by carrying out all the substantive work needed; all policymakers need to do now is just say yes, thank you.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist, a happy wife, and the mother of six children. <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/iX1dsZnedpJjPMoP7\">Sign up here to get early access<\/a> to her next ebook, &#8220;101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation.&#8221; Her bestselling ebook is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books for Young Children<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Pullmann identifies as native American and gender natural. She is also the author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Invasion-Parents-Control-American\/dp\/1594038813\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1486730068&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=education+invasion\">The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,&#8221; from Encounter Books. In 2013-14 she won a Robert Novak journalism fellowship for in-depth reporting on Common Core national education mandates. <\/p>\n<p>Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States\u2019s education institutions were almost entirely formed for the major purposes of developing good citizens and, usually, faithful Christians. 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