Education Department’s History Rocks! Celebrates America, and the Left Hates It

Last December, the Department of Education launched its History Rocks! tour, an initiative to mark the 250th anniversary of America’s Founding. For this tour, Education Secretary Linda McMahon and other department officials promised to visit schools in all 50 states to “promote a shared understanding of the principles that shaped the founding and history of our nation.”

It’s all quite prosaic. But if we must have a federal Department of Education, there are far worse things that it could be doing — placing onerous regulations on schools, bankrolling ideologically suspect projects, or weaponizing Title IX, for example. By comparison, leveraging the department’s bully pulpit to celebrate our country is relatively harmless.

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Daniel Buck is a research fellow and the director of the Conservative Education Reform Network at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Last December, the Department of Education launched its History Rocks! tour, an initiative to mark the 250th anniversary of America’s Founding. For this tour, Education Secretary Linda McMahon and other department officials promised to visit schools in all 50 states to “promote a shared understanding of the principles that shaped the founding and history of our nation.”

It’s all quite prosaic. But if we must have a federal Department of Education, there are far worse things that it could be doing — placing onerous regulations on schools, bankrolling ideologically suspect projects, or weaponizing Title IX, for example. By comparison, leveraging the department’s bully pulpit to celebrate our country is relatively harmless.