{"id":28589,"date":"2020-09-22T05:28:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T05:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=28589"},"modified":"2020-09-22T05:29:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T05:29:01","slug":"trumps-1776-commission-to-promote-patriotic-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/trumps-1776-commission-to-promote-patriotic-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s 1776 Commission to promote \u2018patriotic education\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a move aimed at pleasing his conservative voter base less than two months before the November 3 election, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to set up a \u201cnational commission to promote patriotic education\u201d in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1776 Commission is an education commission proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump to support &#8220;patriotic education&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative is an apparent counter to The 1619 Project, a Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of essays on African American history of the past four centuries, which explores the Black community\u2019s contribution in nation-building since the era of slavery to modern times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump announced the move at a history conference celebrating the 233rd anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution (on September 17, 1787); the document being written in the decade after the original 13 colonies declared independence from the British Empire in 1776.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump said students in US universities are \u2018inundated with critical race theory, a Marxist doctrine holding that America is a wicked and racist nation\u2019, and the new project would teach the youth to \u2018love America.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move aimed at pleasing his conservative voter base less than two months before the November 3 election, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to set up a \u201cnational commission to promote patriotic education\u201d in the US. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The 1776 Commission is an education commission proposed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":28590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1273],"tags":[58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-28589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2020","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28591,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28589\/revisions\/28591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28589"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=28589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}