The Right Standards for American Schools
- sofiapbaker
- Jul 19, 2022
- 1 min read
The Civics Alliance has just published, in time for the Fourth of July, its American Birthright, a model for the reform of American K–12 education in social studies (history, geography, economics, and civics). It’s a real blast of the trumpet, intended to open a new front in America’s culture wars. The document consists of a set of content standards for each level of education from kindergarten through high school; recommendations for reforming pedagogy; and a strategy of political action to restore America’s civic values within state and local educational systems. It required years of preparation and has broad backing in the conservative movement. The Alliance is supported by a coalition of some sixty organizations concerned with education, mostly conservative ones, convened by the National Association of Scholars, which worked in consultation with dozens of leading scholars, pundits, educators, and legislators. American Birthright deserves serious consideration by all those concerned with the condition of American schools…