Checks and Balance: History test
Checks and Balance from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 9 July 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Twenty six Republican-led states have legislated to stop critical race theory being taught in schools. Local school board meetings have seen angry protests. What should Americans learn about their history?
We speak to historian Gary Nash of UCLA, who helped devise national teaching standards, and look back on the West Virginia textbook wars of 1974.
John Prideaux hosts with Tamara Gilkes Borr and Jon Fasman.
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| 0:00.0 | In the story of you, there are still adventures to be had. |
| 0:03.7 | Twist and turns to navigate new characters to introduce. |
| 0:08.3 | Your story isn't only about losing the one you loved, |
| 0:11.4 | because your story doesn't end here. |
| 0:14.0 | It's the start of a new chapter. |
| 0:16.3 | To find out what's next, join the chapter 2 dating community. |
| 0:20.5 | Visit chapter2dating.app to download and turn the page. |
| 0:26.3 | A year ago, Donald Trump celebrated Independence Day at Mount Rushmore. |
| 0:38.1 | While fireworks lit the sky above South Dakota's Black Hills, |
| 0:42.1 | he had a dark warning. |
| 0:43.9 | America faced a campaign to wipe out our history and indoctrinate our children, he said. |
| 0:51.0 | Early drafts of Trump history are not flattering. |
| 0:54.1 | A survey of historians published by C-SPAN this month rated in the 4th |
| 0:58.0 | worst president of all time. |
| 1:00.4 | According to the ranking, Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower would be the top contenders |
| 1:05.2 | for a spot on Mount Rushmore where it ever extended. |
| 1:08.5 | That's unlikely, though. |
| 1:10.3 | In 1980, the Supreme Court ruled that the Sunation had never been justly compensated for the land |
| 1:15.2 | they lost around the monument. Estimates of what they owed reached $2 billion. |
| 1:20.4 | Colossal disputes like this are chiseled into every chapter of American history. |
| 1:26.3 | So what should Americans teach their children about their country? |
| 1:30.6 | This is Chex and Balance. |
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