Mike LaChance at Legal Insurrection has a good report, even
though it’s via Politico:
Note how the liberal site Politico
frames Hillsdale College as “Christian” and cites its “deep ties” to the Trump
administration. That aside, this curriculum looks pretty good, and it’s free.
Trump ally Hillsdale College pitches 1619 Project counterweight
A small Christian college with deep
ties to the Trump administration released a “1776 curriculum” on Wednesday, the
latest push to continue former President Donald Trump’s mission to create a
“patriotic education.”
The nearly 2,400 pages of
curriculum from Hillsdale College in Michigan includes lessons on the founding
of the U.S., the Civil War and the American government. The college has long
been in favor of a civics education that focuses on America’s strength rather
than its ills and supported curriculum that is less critical of the U.S. Larry
Arnn, the college’s president, led the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission,
which Trump appointed members to during his last few weeks in office. It was
later disbanded by the Biden administration but continued to meet.
The curriculum marks another turn
in the national debate over teachings that focus on racism’s role in America’s
past and present.
The left-leaning bias in this
report is pretty obvious, but it still gets out the mission of the 1776
curriculum. “Lessons on the founding of
the U.S., the Civil War and the American government” – all good when not
infected with Critical Race Theory and America-bashing.
For the Hillsdale 1776 curriculum website; click here. Share it with your local school boards, staff, family members ….
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