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Thursday, January 12, 2023

The Sudden Disappearance Of Civics From Public Instruction

 

Pax-Barbaria Compendium Of Best Posts On Education, Followed By "The Trashing Of Civics By The People Who Run America." Sooner Or Later, The Dominant Oligarchs And Plutocrats Will Enforce Curricular Standards, As They've Already Done By The Widespread Elimination Of Civics Instruction In America's Public Schools.

Compendium Of Best "News From Barbaria" Posts Concerning Democracy - And The Indispensable Role Played By Education In The Survival And "Thrival" Of Democracy

http://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2022/11/compendium-of-best-news-from-barbaria.html

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An aside...
If we intended to promulgate Truth in America's Civics and American History courses, we would follow the paradigmatic lead of George Carlin:

George Carlin Describes America's Dumbf*ck Quandary

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/george-carlin-describes-americas.html

"You Have NO Choice," A New Frame For George Carlin's Classic Shtick "The American Dream"
http://cassandralaments.blogspot.com/2018/10/you-have-no-choice-new-frame-for-george.html

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Classicist-Mythologist Edith Hamilton Defines Education
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/classicist-mythologist-edith-hamilton.html

How To Save "Conservative" "Christians" From Themselves: An Experiment In Reading About Notable Human Beings

http://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2022/11/how-to-save-conservative-christians.html

Education Or Catastrophe (With Special Emphasis On The Teaching Of History)

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/11/education-or-catastrophe-with-special.html

Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts On The Cornerstone Necessity Of Education

 https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on.html 

 Compendium Of Best Pax-Barbaria Posts On Education (With A Failsafe Proposal For National Restoration)
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/01/compendium-of-best-pax-barbaria-posts_12.html

History As Bullshit - And What We Can Do About It: ""Human History Becomes More And More A Race Between Education And Catastrophe"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/10/history-as-bullshit-and-what-we-can-do.html

Instruction And Education Aim At Antipodes
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/instruction-and-education-aim-at.html

 Two Full Years Of American History Taught Dialectically Is The Swiftest, Surest Path To Restoration Of Social And Political Health In The American Body Politic
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/09/two-full-years-of-american-history.html

The Swiftest, Most Efficacious Way To Restore Integrity And Vigor To America's Sick Body Politic: 
Two Years Of American History - Taught Dialectically - Will Be A Pre-Requisite For High School Graduation
(Here's How It Works...)
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-most-direct-way-to-restore.html  

"A Failsafe Way To Restore Integrity And Vigor To America's Sick Body Politic: Two Years Of American History - Taught Dialectically - As A Pre-Requisite For High School Graduation"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-most-direct-way-to-restore.html    

Education, "Official Story" Deception, And Pressing Need For A New Way To Teach American History: Democracy's Survival In The Lurch
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/education-official-story-deception-and.html

A BRILLIANT Animation About German Lutheran Pastor Deitrich Bonhoeffer (Hung For His Role In A Plot Against Hitler) Who Concluded That 'Stupidity Is More Difficult To Remedy Than Malice'

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/11/a-brilliant-animation-about-german.html

John F. Kennedy, Education And The End Of War
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/11/john-f-kennedy-education-and-end-of-war.html

Compendium Of Best Pax-Barbaria Posts On Education (With A Failsafe Proposal For National Restoration)

  https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/01/compendium-of-best-pax-barbaria-posts_12.html  

Education Or Catastrophe (With Special Emphasis On The Teaching Of History)

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/11/education-or-catastrophe-with-special.html 

Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts On The Cornerstone Necessity Of Education

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on.html    

Two Full Years Of American History Taught Dialectically Is The Swiftest, Surest Path To Restoration Of Social And Political Health In The American Body Politic
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/09/two-full-years-of-american-history.html

Native America: Why Don't Middle School And High School American History Texts Tell The Truth?
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/native-america-why-dont-middle-school.html 

"Thanksgiving": One Person's Justification For Thieving Genocide Is Another Person's Rage At Being Ripped Off And Mass Murdered

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/11/thanksgiving-one-persons-justification.html
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"The Rotting Of The Republican Mind"
David Brooks
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/view-the-rotting-of-the-republican-mind/articleshow/79433619.cms 

Teaching Civics And American History: Humankind's Race Between Education And Catastrophe
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/teaching-civics-and-american-history.html

"The Paranoid Style In American Politics," The Definitive Essay By Richard Hofstadter
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics.html

A Majority Of Republicans Hold Negative Views About Higher Education
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-majority-of-republicans-hold-negative.html

A Reminder From John F. Kennedy
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-reminder-from-john-f-kennedy.html

Reprise: Trump Is The Symptom Of A Broken Educational System. (Howard Zinn Is The Fix)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/03/reprise-trump-is-symptom-of-broken.html
 
Instruction And Education Aim At Antipodes
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/10/instruction-and-education-aim-at.html

Native America: Why Don't Middle School And High School American History Texts Tell The Truth?
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/native-america-why-dont-middle-school.html 

"How To Make Lasting Political Progress"
(Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler, Teaches Us To Win It All Through Our Persistent Determination To Keep On Losing)
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/how-to-make-lasting-political-progress.html

Why Hasn't A Consortium Of Well-Informed Celebrities And Progressive Philanthropists Created A Truth-Friendly Alternative To Facebook?
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/03/why-hasnt-consortium-of-well-informed.html

Trump Comments On Voter Fraud: People Can Only Be This Stupid When Their Identity Depends On Being Stupid
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/11/trump-comments-on-voter-fraud-people.html

"When The Electorate Is THIS Stupid, Is ANY Delusional Thinking Out Of Bounds?"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/11/when-electorate-is-this-stupid-is-any.html 

The Insuperable Stupidity-Perversity-Ignorance Of Diehard Trump Supporters

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-insurmountable-stupidity-perversity.html

 "The Death Of Epistemology": Update
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-death-of-epistemology-update.html

What The Good Guys Are Up Against: People Who Say, "I Wouldn't Believe That Even It Was True"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-election-homestretch-what-good-guys.html

In 2020 Obama Identified "An Epistemological Crisis" As America's Central Toxin. Here's How I Identified This Toxin In 2012 (This Post Has Been Updated)
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/11/in-2020-obama-identified.html 

"Obama Just Identified Our Biggest Problem Of All" 
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/11/obama-just-identified-our-biggest.html

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The Trashing Of Civics In Public Instruction: A Sampling Of Google Hits
If you don't know who you are AND where you came from, both as an individual -- and as a culture -- the oligarchs and plutocrats whose wealth enables them to run the world (at least formally) will push you around like chaff in the wind.
Plutocrat Trump's manipulation of his cultists is, I think, the most embarrassing breakdown of rudimentary intelligence in the history of the world.


Forgotten Purpose: Civics Education in Public Schools | NEA

https://www.nea.org › new-from-nea › forgotten-purpo...
Mar 16, 2017 — But civics offerings were slashed as the curriculum narrowed over the ensuing decades, and lost further ground to “core subjects” under the ...

A Look at Civics Education in the United States

https://www.aft.org › summer2018 › shapiro_brown
by S Shapiro · 2018 · Cited by 21 — An examination of standards for civics and U.S. government courses found that 32 states and the District of Columbia provide instruction on American democracy ...
Missing: elimination ‎| Must include: elimination

Why is civics no longer taught in most schools in the U.S.?

https://www.quora.com › Why-is-civics-no-longer-taught-...
Sep 5, 2018 — Civics and the basics of American government were taught in many public schools as part of the standard curriculum, at least through the 1980s. There was ...
80 answers · Top answer: It’s been 31 years since I set foot in a public high school. When I was there, we did learn ...
Why did educators decide to stop teaching civics and ...
8 answers
May 7, 2017
Why isn't civics taught in public schools anymore ...
4 answers
Nov 4, 2020
Why were ' Civics ' classes dropped from U.S. high ...
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U.S. History of Civics part 4: The U.S. Department of Education ...

https://sutherlandinstitute.org › u-s-history-of-civics-par...
Jul 1, 2020 — Education policy in the 1960s and '70s largely saw two things: the growth of the federal government in education and some unsuccessful reforms ...

Teaching Civics After Jan. 6 - USNews.com

https://www.usnews.com › Education › K12
Jan 11, 2022 — For decades, civics has taken a back seat to priorities like math, reading and college preparation, educators say. There are no mandatory ...
Missing: elimination ‎| Must include: elimination

Give real civics education a chance to succeed

https://www.nydailynews.com › opinion › ny-oped-give-r...
Oct 13, 2022 — Over the past two decades, civics largely disappeared from American classrooms. Some blame the No Child Left Behind Act, which emphasizes ...

Civic Education: Recent History, Current Status, and the Future

https://www.civiced.org › papers › papers_quigley99
Inattention to civic education stems in part from the assumption that the knowledge and skills citizens need emerge as by-products of the study of other ...

Flunking social studies is how America got the Big Lie and ...

https://www.inquirer.com › opinion › social-studies-civi...
Dec 8, 2022 — But the reality is that civic education for all Americans has been in a long period of steady decline since the 1990s, when education gurus ...

Why Teaching Civics in America's Classrooms Must Be a ...

https://www.motherjones.com › politics › 2017/02 › civ...
Such behavior is a far cry from the ideals of American public schools, which were founded to maintain a pluralistic democracy and protect citizens against ...

After Capitol Riot, Some States Turn to Civics Education

https://www.pewtrusts.org › stateline › 2021/05/19 › aft...
May 19, 2021 — In New Hampshire this year, Republican state Rep. Michael Moffett introduced two bills that would require both high school and college students ...

Legislators Fight to Control the Content of Civic Education

https://www.governing.com › now › legislators-fight-to...
Feb 22, 2022 — Scores of bills have been introduced to limit or forbid classroom discussion of topics at the heart of modern civic life, including race and ...

Put Civics Back in the Classroom, Right Now - Bloomberg.com

https://www.bloomberg.com › opinion › articles › put-c...
Nov 28, 2020 — As of 2018, only eight states required students to take a yearlong civics and government class. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, ...

Say no to censorship! Renew civic space. - The Fulcrum

https://thefulcrum.us › civic ed
Nov 28, 2022 — Civic education is essential · How we arrived here: Civics and history pushed to the margins · Renewing public schools as civic spaces.

Model K-12 Civics Code - Сivics Alliance

https://civicsalliance.org › model-k-12-civics-code
Civics education cannot be reformed piecemeal. Proper civics education reform requires a larger reform of each state's social studies curriculum, ...

Revamped Florida Civics Education Aims for 'Patriotism.' Will It ...

https://www.edweek.org › teaching-learning › 2022/07
Jul 12, 2022 — In the 1990 and 2000s, states disinvested in the subject area and social studies. iCivics, a nonpartisan curriculum and advocacy group, ...

Revitalizing K-12 Civic Learning in California

https://www.cde.ca.gov › cltffinalreport
the necessity of investing in the reduction and ultimate removal of inequitable outcomes in California public schools. Revitalizing civic learning ...
66 pages

The Crisis of Civics Education - The Cornell Policy Review

https://www.cornellpolicyreview.com › crisis-of-ci...
The responsibility to provide public education can be found in U.S. state ... the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) replaced NCLB, but did not eliminate.

Florida is revamping civics education—and OCPA is playing a ...

https://www.ocpathink.org › post › florida-is-revampin...
Nov 2, 2022 — What a concept: public schools teaching the truth about American history and ... of our young nation but warned: “If destruction be our lot, ...

AGAINST CIVIC SCHOOLING - Content Delivery Network (CDN)

https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com › files › 2013/04
by JB Murphy · 2004 · Cited by 40 — They also share a second assumption, namely, that civic education aimed at civic virtue is a primary responsibility of public schools. Because of the nearly ...
45 pages

Legislative Restrictions on Civic Education in US Public ...

https://www.hartwick.edu › uploads › 2022/05
by K Kremsner · 2021 — Legislative Restrictions on Civic Education in US Public Schools to Suppress a POC Electorate. Kristopher Kremsner. Political Science Thesis.

Reset this: Change how we teach civics in America | The Hill

https://thehill.com › opinion › education › 3765799-res...
Dec 13, 2022 — Civics education can help students connect with each other, ... the Social Contract & Public Life, designed to build civic skills, ...

The Civic Purposes of Public Schools - EdSource

https://edsource.org › CivicReport_Final
Sep 11, 2022 — ing for public schools to make sure they capture this moment of opportunity to ... mental for advancing society and eliminating poverty.



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