Shaping social studies
Curriculum for an interdisciplinary field gets revised by a group that includes an influential nonacademic religious adviser.
November 16th, 2011The state Department of Education is beginning the process of formulating new curriculum for public social studies classes.
Sixty-five individuals are tasked with reviewing and rewriting the curriculum. At least one name on the list has drawn fire in the past for controversial statements: David Barton, the founder of WallBuilders, a group that bills itself as “an organization dedicated to presenting America’s forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on the moral, religious and constitutional foundation on which America was built — a foundation which, in recent years, has been seriously attacked and undermined.”
Most of those comprising the curriculum review committee are school teachers and principals