'Radical autopilot': Alaska's school standards ignore Washington, Lincoln, and Christianity:
State education bureaucrats routinely set "standards" for schools to include certain things in their classrooms for students to learn.
But too often, they are reflecting an agenda or ideology, not the simple facts, according to a report at the Federalist.
For instance, even in Republican majority Alaska, its latest iteration of requirements, dated just last year, have no mention of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and even Christianity.
"Alaska's new social studies standards don't mention the Nome Gold Rush. They don't mention the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. They don't mention William Egan, the state of Alaska's first governor, and they don't mention Sarah Palin, who ran for Vice President of the United States. There's a lot more that's missing in the Alaska social studies standards, but you can tell right away that something is wrong when Alaska's social studies standards leave Alaska's children ignorant of the headlines of Alaska's history and the most famous Alaskans," the report explained.
"The names of Christopher Columbus, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln are absent. But so are words like Christianity, Protestantism, and Catholicism; any hint that technological advance might have improved Americans' standard of living; and virtually all of the narrative, events, and heroes of America's wars."
The report noted those bureaucrats appear to be on "radical autopilot" for those social studies standards.
Americans expect such indoctrinations in leftist states like Rhode Island and Minnesota, where materials "strip out factual content, and ignore or slander the history of Western civilization and America, and call it 'social studies instruction.'"
"But radical activists embedded in state education departments do the same thing in red states whenever policymakers and citizens aren't looking. That's what just happened in Alaska," the Federalist said.
The state standards from the Department of Education and Early Development lack "basic facts of American history, much of how our government works, and our foundational documents of liberty. The standards also introduced substantial new amounts of politicized material." --->READ MORE HERE
Alaska Schools’ Social Studies Standards Omit Washington, Lincoln, And Christianity:
Even in a red state like Alaska, bureaucrats have infiltrated the education department with ‘protest’ and ‘action civics.’
Alaska’s new social studies standards don’t mention the Nome Gold Rush. They don’t mention the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. They don’t mention William Egan, the state of Alaska’s first governor, and they don’t mention Sarah Palin, who ran for Vice President of the United States. There’s a lot more that’s missing in the Alaska social studies standards, but you can tell right away that something is wrong when Alaska’s social studies standards leave Alaska’s children ignorant of the headlines of Alaska’s history and the most famous Alaskans.
Education departments in every state are on radical autopilot when they make social studies standards. Americans expect blue states to use their state social studies standards to impose identity politics ideology and action civics (vocational training in progressive activism) on schools and students, strip out factual content, and ignore or slander the history of Western civilization and America, and call it “social studies instruction” — that’s what you get in states such as Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Minnesota. But radical activists embedded in state education departments do the same thing in red states whenever policymakers and citizens aren’t looking. That’s what just happened in Alaska.
The Alaska Social Studies Standards (2024), produced by Alaska’s Department of Education and Early Development, avoided the worst of the blue-state social studies standards’ extreme politicization, unprofessional vocabulary, and ideologically extreme content. That’s because there’s hardly any historical content. The standards’ absences include basic facts of American history, much of how our government works, and our foundational documents of liberty. The standards also introduced substantial new amounts of politicized material.
How did Alaska’s Department get its curriculum so badly wrong?
The department outsourced much of the standards to the radical activists who have captured the national social studies establishment. Alaska’s standards take their structure and emphases from the National Council for the Social Studies’ (NCSS) ideologically extreme definition of social studies, as well as from its College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards. The C3 Framework replaces content knowledge with insubstantial and opaque “inquiry”; lards social studies with identity politics ideologies such as Critical Race Theory; and inserts ideologically extreme activism pedagogies such as Action Civics.
The department also used a racially discriminatory drafting process. The standards state that:
The AHWG [Alaska History Workgroup] was composed of 8 individuals, including educators, education leaders, and representatives of Alaska tribes. This included representation from the Sitka Tribe of Alaska, Goldbelt Heritage Foundation, and Alaska Native Heritage Center. The function of the AHWG was to develop guidance for the inclusion of state history, Tribal government, and Indigenous histories. (p. 7)
The standards further note that, “one of the AHWG members shared the guiding principles with the Sitka Tribe of Alaska’s Education Committee for feedback.” (p. 8) The department used race categories to discriminate among its content advisors and so engaged in illegal racial discrimination in creating its standards.
The department’s use of NCSS, compounded by a racially discriminatory drafting process, produced standards that are bureaucratic, politicized, and possess virtually no content. --->READ MORE HERE
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