And then, improbably, everybody won.
The Northam standards thus arrived as a golden opportunity for Youngkin and Balow to take a stand against the Virginia school establishment. A local news stationno longer described George Washington as “the father of our country” or James Madison as “the father of the Constitution,” a moniker traditionally used in Virginia if not elsewhere. Youngkin jumped on this omission to declare that the standards “still need significant work.
The Virginia Board of Education listens during a public comment meeting in the James Monroe building on April 20, 2023, in Richmond, Va. | Carlos Bernate/The Washington Post/Getty Images “With an unexpected and new board composition that constituted a board majority I weighed input and direction from the board, individual members, the secretary and administration, and others,” Balow wrote. When I noted that I wanted to give her an opportunity to answer board members who believed that she had acted deceptively, she did not respond.
The new document landed with a mighty crash. While the prefatory material of the Northam standards had spoken of instilling in students “a thoughtful pride in the history of America” based on the nation’s continual effort to live up to its own professed values, the new version celebrated “the world impact of America’s quest for a ‘more perfect union’ and the optimism, ideals and imagery captured by Ronald Reagan’s ‘shining city upon a hill’ speech.
Others assailed the absence of explicit skills instruction. A social studies teacher said that students can “find facts in five seconds on their cellphone.” Why, she asked, were children being prepared “to beIf the objections often felt like a familiar reprise of identity politics, there was no mistaking the intensity of feeling; though Youngkin had campaigned on returning control over the schools to parents, virtually every parent who spoke was infuriated by the new standards.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin takes photos with students after signing an executive order at Colonial Forge High School in Stafford, Va., on Sept. 1, 2022. | Craig Hudson/The Washington Post/Getty Images The real difference between the two documents was the pedagogical scaffolding. The Northam documents hadn’t included the list of names to be studied but rather stipulated “supporting questions” like “What were some lasting effects of segregation and the pursuit for equality under law?” That represents a genuine disagreement about how children learn. In the ill-fated November meeting Carmichael had said, “skills absent from content are leaving our children bereft of actual content knowledge.
the Northam draft by including some of the language from the Youngkin version along with some new suggestions. The Youngkin administration did not acknowledge the so-called Collaborative Draft, but it was widely publicized and distributed to all board members.restored the sequence of subjects that Virginia’s teachers were accustomed to teaching, as the Collaborative Draft had suggested, and incorporated language on the inclusion of multiple perspectives on major events.
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