An extraordinary press release from State Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson:
NC’S DRAFT SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM EXPANDS THE TIME STUDENTS WILL STUDY U.S. HISTORY
State Superintendent June Atkinson today said that North Carolina’s draft revised social studies curriculum actually increases the amount of time students will spend studying United States history.
Quantifying this in terms of school years is not good enough. For example, there are periods of U.S. history covered in the current Civics and Economics curriculum. How much more time will students receive, compared to the amount of time they receive now? Is the so-called expanded time uniform across topics and historical periods? …
But even if Atkinson’s claim is true, the sequence of courses creates an unreasonable gap (3 grades) in between pre-1877 and post-1877 U.S. history.
