What Does "Patriotic Education" Mean in the Age of Donald Trump?

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is currently traveling to all 50 states with its History Rocks! campaign.  It's a year-long effort to promote President Trump's vision of"patriotic education, backed by a coalition of 40 conservative and right wing organizations, including the  Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale College, and Turning Point USA. Not a single organization representing a different point of view is represented.  In our latest episode, host Louis Freedberg talks with Jon Zimmerman, professor of history and education at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of  "Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools," about what a more authentic form of civics education could look like in the nation's 250th year.  Not surprisingly, there has been resistance to McMahon bringing her History Rocks! campaign onto some school campuses. Zimmerman prescription?  Welcome Secretary McMahon. But ask her to debate people like Nikole Hannah-Jones from The 1619 Project or others representing contrary points of view.  And then let students make up their own minds. Sign up here so we can keep you posted on future podcasts on how education leaders are responding to the mounting threats against public schools In the United States.