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Ideas for State Legislators - January 2023
ESG
Education
Draft Rhode Island Social Studies Standards
Preliminary critique from the National Association of Scholars (12/22/22 mailing)
More from the National Association of Scholars
California tried to shift the teaching credential process quietly to allow Ethnic Studies majors to teach history and social studies classes. The good folks at the Alliance for Constructive Ethnic Studies (ACES) and the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation (CFER) blew the whistle on them, and the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing has paused the change.... In Minnesota, alas, most of the radicalizing teacher licensure changes have been approved by an administrative law judge. This is by no means the end of the fight—but now the fight must be to repeal these changes, not just to keep them from being imposed. Americans should take notes on how the Center of the American Experiment conducts this necessary battle.
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- state Attorneys General take action + more here
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- Texas state Republicans grill BlackRock in committee hearing over ‘woke’ investment practices
Education
Draft Rhode Island Social Studies Standards
Preliminary critique from the National Association of Scholars (12/22/22 mailing)
- Rigged public comment process to preclude real public comment
- Bloated, jargon-filled prose, unreadable by Rhode Island citizens
- So unclear that the standards are not usable for curriculum creation, professional development, or textbook creation
- Pervasive political skew, exemplified by cut-and-paste invocations of the identity politics coalition and selective use of the cynical phrase and who benefits to delegitimize American history and ideals
- Pervasive absence of the institutions and ideals of history
- Fifth and sixth grade standards made unteachably difficult so as to import sophisticated cynicism into a basic course
- Applying the analysis of power dynamics, with implicitly revolutionary consequences, to the family
More from the National Association of Scholars
- Indiana Grade 6 Civics Standards: A Good Model
Indiana just issued Grade 6 Civics Standards—and they’re good. Just a decade ago, these would have been standard-issue, but now they’re far above average because they don’t include radical distortions. We commend Indiana’s Education Department for quiet competence in producing middle-school civics standards, and we encourage all Americans to look at them so that they can see what a good old-fashioned middle-school civics standard looks like. - Teaching Credentials: California and Minnesota
California tried to shift the teaching credential process quietly to allow Ethnic Studies majors to teach history and social studies classes. The good folks at the Alliance for Constructive Ethnic Studies (ACES) and the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation (CFER) blew the whistle on them, and the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing has paused the change.... In Minnesota, alas, most of the radicalizing teacher licensure changes have been approved by an administrative law judge. This is by no means the end of the fight—but now the fight must be to repeal these changes, not just to keep them from being imposed. Americans should take notes on how the Center of the American Experiment conducts this necessary battle.
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- How the GOP Turned Florida Into a Red State
- Conservative Teachers of America (Facebook group)
- has state chapters
- just put, e.g., ‘Conservative Teachers of America - Virginia’ into Facebook’s search box and see if there’s on for your state
- has school board subgroups
- has state chapters
- 1/2/23 - Kick Woke Criminal Justice Reforms to the Curb
- 12/14/22 - Arizona’s Election Stinks to High Heaven
- 12/8/22 - War on Parents: The Left Calls Out the Big Guns