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| *September 29, 2011 FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICTS REFUSE TO DISTRIBUTE CONSTITUTION BOOKLETS "Two Florida school districts won’t be handing out pocket-sized Constitutions to their eighth graders because they were donated by the local 9/12 Project, prompting concerns from school officials about the “opinions and viewpoints” the booklets contain." >>read more>> |
| *September 15, 2011 INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE IS ANTI-US CONSTITUTION “The goal of the International Baccalaureate Organization is to impose global education standards and curriculum. This course of study is to produce global citizens, not citizens of America who are loyal to the principles of our founding documents: the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.” >>read more>> |
| July 1, 2011 AMERICAN AMNESIA "We live in a time marked by anxieties over many perceived threats to our way of life—terrorism, economic collapse, and climate change, to mention just a few of the widespread fears making our headlines these days. But there is a looming crisis closer at hand that poses every bit as grave a threat to the future of our way of life: the very real possibility that our democracy will be left in the hands of a citizenry unprepared to govern it and unwilling the make the sacrifices needed to preserve it. A free society requires an informed and virtuous citizenry. " >>read more>> |
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| June 17, 2011 WHY IS U.S. HISTORY HIGH-SCHOOLERS’ WORST SUBJECT? “With American students less proficient in their nation's history than any other subject, it's hard to argue against the public's emphasis on old-fashioned content. If creating good citizens who understand the workings of their government is a national goal, schools need to do better. And there seems to be no better place to start than by listening to what American citizens as a whole think is important to learn.” >>read more>> |
| March 25, 2011 NYC SCHOOL TO SAY PLEDGE AFTER PARENTS COMPLAIN “A Brooklyn elementary school that wasn't having students recite the Pledge of Allegiance will change course after a child's parents realized she didn't know the oath. City and state rules mandate the pledge in public schools, but many school in the nation's largest school system ignore the law, according to the Daily News.” >>read more>> |
| September 30, 2010 HIGH SCHOOLS, CIVICS, AND CITIZENSHIP:WHAT SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHERS THINK AND DO “This study revolves around an essential question: what are teachers trying to teach our youth about citizenship and what it means to be an American?” >>read more>> |
| September 16, 2010 ARE TEXAS’S SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS REALLY SO BAD? “The final Texas standards are for the most part conventional and inclusive. A few items betray a ‘conservative’ viewpoint. They do not warrant the attention and defamation they have received nor the hysteria they have generated. Texas is not re-writing textbooks. Little has changed. The new standards on the whole conform to what’s already in textbooks, and the impact on history textbooks nationwide will be very limited.” >>read more>> |
| August 10, 2010 UN-AMERICAN AMERICAN HISTORY COURSES “Parents should check out how American history is taught, and NOT taught, in their children's schools. Is Islamic or Mexican propaganda masquerading as ‘American history’?” >>read more>> |
| August 4, 2010 STUDENT PREVAILS IN RESTORING PLEDGE IN MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL “After three years, high school student Sean Harrington received good news Tuesday night from the Arlington, Mass., Public School Committee – his proposal to restore the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in Arlington County was unanimously granted.” >>read more>> |
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From the Education Advocate Vol. 7, No. 4-(2006) "Social justice, a term rooted in the civil rights movements of the past 40 years, is based on the belief that educational institutions must be change agents that will train children to work to end the “injustices” of oppression, bigotry, cultural imperialism, exploitation, etc. Historical “facts” and perspectives may there- fore be distorted to deliver a predetermined message that will move students toward desired actions.5 |
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Commonwealth Education Organization . 3830 Saxonburg Blvd. Cheswick , Pa. 15024 . (412) 967-9691
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