The framework revision that almost was: why the legislature shut it down and why it can and should be re-started

(Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954) The choice to use the Framework rather than the Standards to maintain currency in social studies teaching and learning is problematic.\n A Modest Proposal [The study of] History will give Occasion to expatiate on the Advantage of Civil Orders and Constitutions. [...] may the first Principles of sound Politicks be fix' d in the Minds of Youth. ...On Historical Occasions, Questions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice, will naturally arise, and may be put to Youth, which they may debate in Conversation and in Writing. [...] there is no good reason why educators themselves, working through their own state and local professional organizations cannot begin the task of identifying critical concepts and understandings necessary for effective participation in the contemporary local, state, national and global scene which should be introduced to children of various age/grade levels through an appropriate social education.