Oklahoma Embraces “Civic Education”
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CounterCurrent: Week of 1/12
Oklahoma Embraces “Civic Education”
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Category: K-12 Education; Reading Time: ~2 minutes
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** Featured Article - Oklahoma Ed Agency is OK with Promoting Progressive Activism as Civics by David Randall ([link removed][UNIQID])
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Generation Citizen (GC) ([link removed][UNIQID]) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to “empowering young people to become engaged and effective citizens.” GC discerns ([link removed][UNIQID]) an alarming lack of political engagement among American youth, a trend the NAS identifies as well, and seeks to ameliorate it through quality civics education. So far so good. The problem is that GC does not teach civics as most know it, but so-called “action civics ([link removed][UNIQID]) .” Their programs center on community activism, youth organizing, and identity politics, all at the expense of a traditional civics education. What is otherwise a noble goal of making responsible citizens becomes sullied through an unambiguous bias toward leftist theories of social change.
GC has eight “action civics hubs ([link removed][UNIQID]) ” stationed across the country, as well as affiliates in Canada, Ireland, and Pakistan. Their latest work brings them to Oklahoma, as per their December announcement ([link removed][UNIQID]) of a new partnership with the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE). In a statement ([link removed][UNIQID]) by CEO Scott Warren titled “Why Oklahoma?,” Warren cites a desire “expand to more diverse geographies,” which is to say inland, red states (GC has also recently expanded into Central Texas). This is not the political olive branch it may appear to be, as the fundamentally-leftist core of the GC curriculum does not change based on location. Rather, the expansion is quite simply a push to expose as many American students as possible to progressive propaganda, the latest victims being the huddled, unlearned masses of Oklahoma.
In this week’s featured article ([link removed][UNIQID]) , NAS Research Director David Randall breaks down the inner workings of Generation Citizen’s programming and places it within the broader New Civics movement. He argues that “Generation Citizen is a social justice organization using civics education as a Trojan Horse to take over Oklahoma’s K-12 school system. It can, should, and must be banished from Oklahoma’s schools…” Randall also provides his reform recommendations for Oklahoman lawmakers and citizens.
The New Civics movement is but one part of the yet broader Social Justice Education ([link removed][UNIQID]) movement, a nationwide scourge that will infect every corner of American education if we allow it. Academic freedom must be protected from these ever-encroaching threats.
Until next week.
John David
Communications Associate
National Association of Scholars
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For more on New Civics and social justice education:
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January 24, 2017
** Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics ([link removed][UNIQID])
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David Randall
The “New Civics” redefines civics as progressive political activism. Though camouflaged with soft rhetoric, the New Civics, properly understood, is an effort to repurpose higher education.
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December 04, 2019
** Social Justice Education in America ([link removed][UNIQID])
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David Randall
Social Justice Education in America is a comprehensive examination of the inner workings of social justice advocates at more than 60 universities and how they have insinuated themselves into the university system to propagandize students.
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October 02, 2019
** Testing Threatens "Civic Education" ([link removed][UNIQID])
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David Randall
New Civics finds an enemy in standardized testing. It turns out, explains David Randall, that tests require extensive factual knowledge. The sort of knowledge that only comes from in-class education and diverts students from the progressive activism training proponents of New Civics prefer.
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August 15, 2019
** California Says Goodbye to "Hxrstory," For Now ([link removed][UNIQID])
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NAS
The California State Board of Education orders the state's proposed "Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum" be redesigned. The news is a small victory for sanity.
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