US EditionCritics warn Florida’s new teaching standards rehabilitate aspects of the anti-communist Red Scare
New standards require teaching the consequences of communism and frame terms like 'McCarthyism' as slander, reflecting 2024 legislation and recent Victims of Communism Day law.
- Florida's new social studies teaching standards approved on Thursday include instructions portraying 'McCarthyism' as an insult and terms like 'Red Scare' as slander against anti-communists.
- The daughter of a Hollywood screenwriter jailed and blacklisted during the anti-communist Red Scare has criticized these standards for rehabilitating aspects of the McCarthy era.
- The standards soften criticism of former U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who led efforts to root out suspected communists in government, the Civil Rights Movement, and artistic communities in the late 1940s and 1950s.
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Critics warn Florida's new teaching standards rehabilitate aspects of the anti-communist Red Scare
Critics are warning that Florida's new social studies standards rehabilitate aspects of McCarthyism and the anti-communist Red Scare.
Florida Takes a Blowtorch to Communist Myths in the Classroom
Florida just made a big change to the way kids learn civics, and it’s already getting national attention. This week, the State Board of Education voted to approve new standards that tell schools to teach the real dangers of communism and socialism. And not in a soft way. The new rules require students to...
ORLANDO, Florida — The daughter of a Hollywood screenwriter who was jailed and blacklisted during the Anti-Communist Witch Hunt harshly criticized Florida’s new standards of social study teaching, which, according to other critics, rehabilitate shameful aspects of the McCarthy era. “The new Florida standards they write about are appalling,” Mitzi Trumbo said Thursday night in an email to The Associated Press. “History must never be rewritten to …
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