A classical education organization is offering history curriculum for elementary, middle school and high school students that teaches an accurate accounting of America’s past – from its founding in 1776 to the exceptionalism it projects today.
For some time now, conservative parents in the U.S. have been worried about “woke” history teachers and their anti-American bias infecting their children, but were unsure how to counter it. Hillsdale College in Michigan – which provides training and curriculum geared toward classical education – now offers history and civics lessons based on the following premise: “America is an exceptionally good country.”
According to its mission statement, Hillsdale values the merit of each unique individual, rather than succumbing to the dehumanizing, discriminatory trend of so-called “social justice” and “multicultural diversity.” Those are values it brings to its American History and Civics curriculum, according to Dr. Kathleen O’Toole, Hillsdale’s assistant provost for K-12 education.
“The history of America is a good thing because it’s written down,” she explains. “There is evidence for us to consider – and if you consider that evidence, then you see that there are triumphs and tragedies in American history.”
In describing the curriculum content, Hillsdale explains:
“In history and civics classes, American students should have one aim above all: to understand what they have received – i.e., their inheritance as Americans. To understand clearly, students and teacher alike must adopt a stance of humility. And this humility is fostered by the recognition on the part of the student that the world in which we live, with all its benefits and also its faults, is not of our own creation.”
On Monday, O’Toole told American Family Radio that the curriculum is meant to counter things like the New York Times’ fictional “1619 Project” – which argues that the entire American experience since 1619 has been an attempt to protect slavery, making the country systemically racist (see related story).
“Today we are in a state of division in this country and confusion about what our country means,” O’Toole shared. “And so, seeing that, we thought we would make [this] curriculum available to anyone in the country who would like it for free.”
Educators – whether in the classroom or at home – can download the courses for free at the Hillsdale website.
“This is a curriculum focused on the primary sources and focused on the questions that teachers and students should ask when they’re reading those primary sources. It’s not a script,” O’Toole emphasized.
Current material addresses America’s founding, the Civil War, and civics. Additional lessons planned for the coming months include Colonial America, the Great Depression, WWII, and the Cold War.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
“Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”
History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it
and if it offense you the better. Because you are less likely to repeat it.
It is NOT yours to change or erase, it belongs to all of us.
THE LEFT doesn’t WANT to learn from history. THEY WANT TO re-write it to THEIR NEEDS..
American history is rich and diverse, it has always included the good and the bad and never from one particular viewpoint. To this was always added geography, not just of the United States but of the world, world cultures including ties with the US, and most of all government! Somewhere along the line much of this was lost for a catch-all social studies which was so loosely defined that socialism and political correctness crept in along with the underminig elements that have led to the wokeness culture. That made it easy for a very slanted style of history to be written and accepted because students hadn’t been exposed to the truth only indoctrination by leftist teachers who got away with it. Seeing this cirriculum is available to the home is a positive step.
Hillsdale is an excellent model for all colleges and universities in this country that are falling prey to Liberalism, political correctness, wokeness, and censoring of free speech.
ALL those who hate america, and american history, SHOULD BE KICKED THE HELL OUT OF THE NATION, permanently.. And if US citizens, they should have it PUBLICLY REVOKED.
Andrew graduated valedictorian from high school then earned his PhD from Harvard.
Most of his EIGHT siblings have advanced university degrees.
All of this family’s members are exemplary Christian leaders in their respective communities.
Just think what they might have become if they weren’t members of a Black family. Well, they are. They are wonderful people. They were my childhood neighbors.
I challenge the “woke” lunatics to explain how this could be true. It is.
I challenge the “woke” lunatics to explain how all of these fine people could be the children of parents with “only” a high school education.
I challenge the “woke” lunatics to explain how all of these succeeded yet were born long before the 1964 Civil Rights Act became law.
The answer is simple: they diligently WORKED HARD and ignored all discouragement.
BTW, kids of ALL ethnic groups CAN and SHOULD follow their examples.
THEY AIN’T black.. That’s what they will respond.