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Lack of standards invites politics into Wyo civics classes, critics say


Posted Date: 07/14/2021

Lack of standards invites politics into Wyo civics classes, critics say

Lack of standards invites politics into Wyo civics classes, critics say


One afternoon this spring, educators around Wyoming logged onto Zoom for a voluntary lesson on 20th Century U.S. history featuring a “live presentation from an esteemed scholar expert.”

For the next two hours, College of the Sequoias history professor Stephen Tootle led roughly a dozen high school and college-level educators through a lecture on American foreign policy. 

The lecture drilled down on the legacy of Republican President Ronald Reagan and the post-war, anti-interventionism of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Tootle derided partisan hardliners like the anti-communist Sen. Joseph McCarthy and criticized the foreign policy stances of Democrats like John F. Kennedy.

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