Will Fitzhugh, Author at Pioneer Institute

About Will Fitzhugh

Will Fitzhugh earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard. He founded The Concord Review, which for 30 years, has published student non-fiction essays from around the globe.

Entries by Will Fitzhugh

No Longer A City On A Hill: Massachusetts Degrades Its K–12 History Standards

June 21, 2018/by Will Fitzhugh

The Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education should reject a proposed rewrite of the Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework in its entirety and immediately restore the state’s 2003 framework, considered among the strongest in the country, according to a new research paper titled, No Longer a City on a Hill: Massachusetts Degrades Its K-12 U.S. History Standards, published by Pioneer Institute.

2018 Proposed Revisions to Massachusetts History and Social Studies Frameworks

March 28, 2018/by Will Fitzhugh

This public statement addresses the draft of the Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework that was released for public comment in January. The authors argue that the new standards would follow in the footsteps of recently adopted English, math, and science standards by representing a decline in content and coherence compared to their predecessors.