President Trump signs executive order for the promotion of 'patriotic education'

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday that seeks to promote "patriotic education" about the nation's history.

The order calls for the creation of the President's Advisory 1776 Commission which will be tasked with producing a report pertaining to the key principles of the country's "founding and how these principles may be understood to further enjoyment of 'the blessings of liberty' and to promote our striving 'to form a more perfect Union.'"

The commission will furnish recommendations about fostering patriotic education at federal locations, some of which include National Monuments and Parks. It will develop an award meant to acknowledge student understanding of issues pertaining to the nation's founding.

Another section of the order says that agencies should promote compliance with a legal requirement that educational facilities receiving federal dollars provide education about the U.S. Constitution on Constitution Day. 

"Despite the virtues and accomplishments of this Nation, many students are now taught in school to hate their own country, and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but rather villains," the order states. "This radicalized view of American history lacks perspective, obscures virtues, twists motives, ignores or distorts facts, and magnifies flaws, resulting in the truth being concealed and history disfigured. Failing to identify, challenge, and correct this distorted perspective could fray and ultimately erase the bonds that knit our country and culture together."