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 Always Be Founding: Projects to “renew” civic education and “reinvent” U.S. democracy smuggle in a rejection of the American Founding

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The simple prefix “re-” is just that: a bare marker of “back” or “again,” what linguists call a morpheme, the smallest part of language that has meaning. When used by progressive thinkers, however, especially in matters of public policy, it turns into something more. In that clipped syllable a sweeping vision of past and future emerges, along with a grand conception of the figures doing the “re-ing.” One must pay close attention.

Two months ago, when the Educating for American Democracy Roadmap, a scholastic initiative to redesign history and civic education for the twenty-first century, was released, it was hailed as a bipartisan effort. It drew high praise from six former secretaries of education, three of whom served in Republican administrations. The secretaries voiced their approval in the Wall Street Journal on March 1 in a judicious, studiously balanced statement. The Roadmap isn’t a civics curriculum or assessment tool, they explained. Rather, it lays out guidelines, topics, and essential questions that states may consult as they craft their own education standards and curricula for civic instruction. Most importantly, they said, the Roadmap offers students an account of democracy in America “that is honest about the wrongs of the past without falling into cynicism, and appreciative of the American founding without tipping into adulation.” Hence, in following the map, teachers could avoid the errors of the hard Right (too much jingoism) and the hard Left (too much anti-Americanism) alike, leaving students with a reflective “appreciation” of the American Founding.

Reading the Roadmap closely, however, one doesn’t find much appreciation for the Founding. In its 39 pages, the Roadmap mentions the word 12 times—that’s it. Basic references to the principles and ideals of the Founding make up only four of those 12. The other eight tie the Founding to social and political matters that cast doubt on its merits. For example, one of the “Sample Guiding Questions” for grades six through eight attaches the Founding to “territorial expansion,” asking how it was shaped by ideas of equality “for whom?” Those final words shift the learning goal from the ideals of equality themselves to which identities enjoyed constitutional rights—and which didn’t. Four questions later, after discussions of slavery, “Latino and Latina populations,” and Asian-Americans, students are asked to link the Founding to “U.S. national self-interest and power.” Another question returns to identity distinctions, asking students to note how the Founding affected “how different groups of people could express their political will.” Instead of appreciating the Founding, students end up suspicious of it. “All men are created equal” becomes: Only white males allowed.

.https://www.city-journal.org/civics-education-initiative-implicitly-rejects-american-founding

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