SCHOOLS: Why our children don’t know history*

Left-wing ideologues and postmodernists have hijacked the teaching of history, writes Kevin Donnelly.Was John Howard correct last month? Has the teaching of history fallen victim to a politically correct, New Age approach to curriculum, and are students receiving a fragmented understanding of the past? The evidence suggests “yes”.Since the 1970s and ’80s, as outlined in Why Our Schools Are Failing, left-wing academics, education bureaucracies and professional associations have embarked on the lo…

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