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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharter school program favored by Tennessee governor rewrites civil rights history
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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
@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.
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Charter school program favored by Tennessee governor rewrites civil rights history (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
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Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)1. Talk about indoctrination.
That's nothing but right-wing indoctrination.
keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)2. Dubya would call it revisionist history
spanone
(135,630 posts)3. Bill Lee and our current legislators will go down as one of the worse in TN history.
Taking us back to the fifties.