They're Teaching History in New Mexico Without Rosa Parks or the Atomic Bomb

[ehrnst]

New Mexico students and teachers are not the only ones who realize the importance of assessments. Public Education Secretary-designate Christopher Ruszkowski told the Santa Fe New Mexican in late October, “what gets measured gets done” when referring to high-stakes assessments. However, when confronted with the elimination of various events and figures from the U.S. History EOC, the secretary-designate reverts to insinuating in interviews that only bad teachers teach to the test.

I have suspicions that the events and topics eliminated from the U.S. History EOC are politically motivated. Events such as early 20th Century trust busting and the subsequent regulations on large corporations have been stricken. The racial and ethnic conflict from late 19th Century urbanization has been stricken. The mobilization of the war industry during World War II that led to President Dwight D. Eisenhower warning of “the military industrial complex” has been stricken. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan has been stricken. The Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks has been stricken from the standards as well.

http://nmpolitics.net/index/2017/11/why-is-governor-martinez-trying-to-change-history/

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Hey, it's not like NM ever had anything to do with the atomic bomb !

[elleng]

2. They are NOT teaching history in New Mexico.

Is it being taught ANYWHERE?

[Brother Buzz]

3. Conservative talk radio, baby!

[ProudLib72]

4. Get the kids on a bus

Take them to Los Alamos. Simple solution.

[marybourg]

5. And the Trinity Site.

[ProudLib72]

6. And the Trinity site

But it isn't open that often.

[marybourg]

8. April and October.

You wouldn't want to be there any other time. Second weekend, at the Stallion Gate, if nothing has changed. Well worth the effort.

[ansible]

7. We never learned about it in high school here either

Graduated high school in 2004, most of the focus of the history classes was on the Holocaust.

[struggle4progress]

9. "Drawn by higher wages, millions of African immigrants settled in our southern states

to pick cotton. Meanwhile, across the frontier, Indian tribes sold their land to farmers and invested the profits in new business opportunities like casinos. By 1900, America was a prosperous country, due to the peaceful cooperation of capitalists and workers. Interracial tensions had become so rare that many whites enjoyed putting on blackface and pretending to be colored workers singing happily in the fields"