AHA executive director James Grossman was quoted in a New York Times article about the major moves the new Trump administration has made in its first weeks in office. Asked about the “Executive Order Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling,” Grossman cited the AHA’s recent report, American Lesson Plan: Teaching US History in Secondary Schools, which “found little evidence that teachers are doing any of the things that are being banned in this executive order.” Grossman also published a commentary on the executive order, asserting that it “rests on—and even promotes—a misleading caricature of history education in the United States. This shaky premise undergirds a set of policy mandates that threaten the integrity and utility of history education in our nation.”
