Charter school program favored by Tennessee governor rewrites civil rights history [View all]

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

Tweet text:Kevin M. Kruse
@KevinMKruse
Must-read piece by @NC5PhilWilliams for @NC5 on @GovBillLee's embrace of the pathetically partisan history curriculum from right-wing Hillsdale College

Honestly, I'm not sure if I'm more offended as a historian or a Tennessean.
Hillsdale Curriculum Image.jpg
newschannel5.com

REVEALED: Charter school program favored by Tennessee governor rewrites civil rights history
Lee calls Hillsdale College's approach to teaching civics "informed patriotism." But the colleges's own teaching materials reveal why critics say its approach is anything but informed.
6:31 AM · Mar 2, 2022

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed-charter-school-program-favored-by-tennessee-governor-rewrites-civil-rights-history

*snip*

Hillsdale's "1776 Curriculum" shows how it wants schools to teach civics. It relies on approaches developed by Arnn and other members of the 1776 Commission appointed by Trump to develop a "patriotic education" for the nation's schools.

The high-school American Government and Politics curriculum emphasizes the "meaningful efforts Republicans made to guarantee the rights of African Americans."




On the other hand, progressive policies implemented by Democrats are presented as a "rejection of the principles of the Declaration of Independence."




Nowhere is that ideological approach more clear than in its portrayal of the civil rights movement and the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"The 1776 Curriculum kind of has their own view of Dr. King and what he would believe today," David Ewing noted.

*snip*



Scary shit.