David Staples

Who is writing our K-12 social studies curriculum — experts, or ideologues?
We need excellent teachers and top experts in the main areas of the field, such as history, anthropology and geography, to do this work, not just folks who share a common view on politics or on the particular techniques that teachers should use in class.
We’ve seen what happens when ideologues take over. Actual math professors were frozen out of the last major math curriculum writing process in the mid-2