Any parent with school-age kids knows they’re probably not getting the civics education they need. Teachers lack proper training or are increasingly pressured to embrace “action civics.”
A new study from the Pioneer Institute and the National Association of Scholars, provided exclusively to The Daily Signal, offers a detailed ranking of 15 civics education programs offered for K-12 instruction.
David Randall, director of research at the National Association of Scholars, evaluated resources like the 1776 Curriculum from Hillsdale College to the Pulitzer Center’s 1619 Project Curriculum. He says:
In 2021, the American people awoke to the longstanding crisis in K–12 civics education. Not the old crisis of plummeting test scores and abysmal knowledge of our republic’s structure and our nation’s history, but the new crisis—that radical advocates have seized control of our K–12 public education system and have imposed a curriculum that forwards their dogmas in the guise of civics and history.
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In his report, “Learning for Self-Government: A K–12 Civics Report Card,” Randall grades the civics education resources on a scale of A through F. (See chart below.)
Kids are not getting an Education ANYWHERE. My daughter ” Home Schools ” With large print coloring books with stickers and crazy Disnesque American History Stories and Bible studies and she is not that bright and thinks she’s doing my grandkid a favor and being a good Conservative but it’s just nuts. Home schooled children will not be taking over the Party.