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"President Donald Trump’s Department of Education has announced that it will
partner with right-wing think tanks and organizations to develop a new
curriculum for “patriotic education” in American classrooms.
Earlier this week, the Trump administration redirected $137 million initially
meant for programs aimed at minority students toward what it described as
“American history and civics education.”
Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced Wednesday that the money will be
directed toward discretionary grants aimed at K-12 schools that adopt a new
curriculum being drawn up by the 250 Civics Education Coalition — a consortium
of more than 40 right-wing groups that launched on same day. The goal, McMahon
said, was to advance education that “emphasizes a unifying and uplifting
portrayal of the nation’s founding ideals” in advance of the nation’s 250th
anniversary in 2026.
It is not Trump’s first crack at instilling the nation’s youth with a
“patriotic education.” In the waning days of his first term in office, Trump
unveiled the
1776 Report, which, education columnist Jennifer Berkshire
recently noted in
The Baffler, “was widely panned by actual historians for
its worshipful treatment of the Founding Fathers, its downplaying of slavery,
and its portrayal of a century-old ‘administrative state’ controlled by leftist
radicals.”"
Via Joyce Donahue.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
