Nice...looks like politicians, with no knowledge of pedagogy, are trying to censor the teachers in Arizona:
"Arizona schools whose courses 'denigrate American values and the teachings of Western civilization' could lose state funding under the terms of legislation approved Wednesday by a House panel.
SB1108 also would bar teaching practices that 'overtly encourage dissent' from those values, including democracy, capitalism, pluralism and religious tolerance. Schools would have to surrender teaching materials to the state superintendent of public instruction, who could withhold state aid from districts that broke the law."
I'll bet Horowitz is lurking in the shadows somewhere...
via Katie G.
I never got a straight answer about this but how would you teach American history of 1776? Rebellion and revolution were good only before 1800? When Jefferson promoted a revolution every 20 years, he didn't set an end date of 1950.
ReplyDeleteThis could be the modern Monkey Trial.