US Military Base Schools Put New Emphasis on Western Civilization and Christianity
The course will use a conservative textbook and lesson plans from Hillsdale College as the Pentagon expands classical learning in schools for military families.
- The Department of Defense plans to introduce a new high school course on Western civilization and Christianity this fall across its schools serving military families, as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s push toward classical learning and patriotic education.
- The course will use The Golden Thread, a textbook published by conservative Encounter Books with lesson plans developed in partnership with Hillsdale College, a Christian institution known for promoting classical education.
- Historians and educators who reviewed the material criticized it for presenting Western civilization and Christianity as closely intertwined while portraying Islam in an overly negative and historically selective way.
- The curriculum change is part of a broader restructuring of the Pentagon’s roughly 160 schools, including new leadership and hiring decisions intended to place greater emphasis on classical education, Western history and patriotic values.
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Military Base Schools to Stress Christianity, Western Civilization
The Department of Defense is introducing a course centered on Western civilization and Christianity this fall in the schools it operates for military families, part of an effort by Secretary Pete Hegseth to redirect the education system toward patriotic values and classical learning. The Department of Defense Education Activity operates...
U.S. military base schools put new emphasis on Western civilization and Christianity
The Department of Defense is introducing a course centered on Western civilization and Christianity this fall in the schools it operates for military families, part of an effort by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to redirect the education system toward patriotic values and classical learning.
U.S. defence emphasizes Western civilization, Christianity in military family schooling
The Department of Defence Education Activity operates about 160 schools across 11 countries and educates roughly 70,000 students who are children of active-duty military or civilian service members. Conservatives have eyed the schools — which, unlike most public schools, are run by the federal government — as a testing ground for reshaping education.
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Schools serving US military families put new emphasis on Western civilization and Christianity
WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense is introducing a course centered on Western civilization and Christianity this fall in the schools it operat...
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AP Exclusive: US military family schools put new emphasis on Western civilization and Christianity
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Defense is introducing a course centered on Western civilization and Christianity this fall in the schools it operates for military families, part of an effort by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to redirect the education…
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US military base schools put new emphasis on Western civilization and Christianity
The Department of Defense is introducing a course centered on Western civilization and Christianity this fall in the schools it operates for military families.
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