https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/12/10/abolish-social-studies/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 13:08:54 -0400<![CDATA[Today’s social studies textbooks will not turn children into little Maoists. The group happy-speak in which they are composed is more fatuous than polemical; Hanna’s Reconstructionist ideals have been so watered down as to be little more than banalities. The “ultimate goal of the social studies,” according to Michael Berson, a coauthor of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt series, is to “instigate a response that spreads compassion, understanding, and hope throughout our nation and the global community.” Berson’s textbooks, like those of the other publishers, are generally faithful to this flabby, attenuated Comtism.]]>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:00:41 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/12/10/abolish-social-studies-n98140