Podcast
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance
The Education Gadfly Show: The case for good schools as a state constitutional right
On this week’s podcast, Nina Rees, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Public
On this week’s podcast, Nina Rees, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Public
A legitimate grievance against Confederate monuments has degraded into something deeply troubling. Statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the like are now getting removed, toppled, or vandalized. It’s a threat to our history based on disapproval of some actions and practices of past individuals, never mind how central—even heroic—their roles were to the history that we want our kids to learn more about. Few young Americans are learning American history as it is. We shouldn’t want them to learn even less.