The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) has received some media attention recently for its attempts to restructure the standard curriculum for public high school students in the state. A look at the department website reveals that the social studies area of a students’ education will include three mandatory classes. These three classes [...]
- Feb04
DPI: Don’t Know Much About History
Kudos to my friend Terry Stoops of the John Locke Foundation. Terry has been one of the few critics of the draft social studies standards being developed by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. See news report, here. Once again DPI seems to favor the “salad bowl” approach to developing standards. While the new standards include [...]
- Jul24
Lessons of Risk
My fiancé has been playing Axis and Allies; a timeless Risk-type WWII simulated war game, in his tent at a FOB in Afghanistan. Because the real war that he engages in each day isn’t enough, he and his fellow officers take turns strategizing attacks on each other’s territories, with the goal of capturing two enemy [...]