Hello, former history teacher and current graduate student who works on the history of education. it began before Reagan, though A Nation at Risk was certainly a part of the continued assault on liberal arts education. I study the 1940s-1960s and there were substantial calls from conservatives for the Three Rs education. In this, history…
Hello, former history teacher and current graduate student who works on the history of education. it began before Reagan, though A Nation at Risk was certainly a part of the continued assault on liberal arts education. I study the 1940s-1960s and there were substantial calls from conservatives for the Three Rs education. In this, history fell by the wayside. Further, "controversial topics" which had previously been embraced by progressive educators as something necessary to discuss were jettisoned. Instead, conservatives pushed for history education that taught rote memorization and exalted blind acceptance of parental authority. This latter was often a cover for the maintenance of racist ideologies and religious bigotry.
Hello, former history teacher and current graduate student who works on the history of education. it began before Reagan, though A Nation at Risk was certainly a part of the continued assault on liberal arts education. I study the 1940s-1960s and there were substantial calls from conservatives for the Three Rs education. In this, history fell by the wayside. Further, "controversial topics" which had previously been embraced by progressive educators as something necessary to discuss were jettisoned. Instead, conservatives pushed for history education that taught rote memorization and exalted blind acceptance of parental authority. This latter was often a cover for the maintenance of racist ideologies and religious bigotry.