The average high school student knows little about American history, and even less about the world. Indeed, a decade later, one of us taught alongside the genial, soft-spoken Hirsch, only to see fellow UVA education school faculty quietly steer their students away from this dangerous figure. The skills-over-facts trend paralleled a push to jettison traditional historical narratives and moral certainties in favor of critical theories. As a teacher said to one of us recently regarding developments in Israel and Gaza: “Many kids have little to no understanding of the historical context. In 2020, RAND surveyed high school civics teachers about what they thought graduates needed to know.

Source: Huffington Post November 18, 2023 01:03 UTC