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  • SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
    1/30/2023

    On Florida's Erasure of Black History

    by Lynn Pasquerella and Mary Dana Hinton

    The Florida AP decision raises a host of troubling questions about what the state hopes to accomplish, with ominous implications for political enfranchisement, democratic deliberation, and civic connection. 

  • SOURCE: Washington Post
    1/6/2023

    Third Draft of Virginia History Standards Incorporates Responses to Some Criticisms

    After appointees of Glen Younkin rejected the detailed standards developed in consultation with historians, educators and museum professionals in favor of a stripped-down document with little attention to the history minority groups, a new draft has explicitly mandated discussions of racism in the K-12 curriculum. 

  • SOURCE: EdWeek
    12/15/2022

    AHA Project to Determine What Happens in History Classrooms

    Hoping both to fight media panics over "indoctrination" and guide policymakers and teachers toward better practices, the AHA will undertake a two-year project to investigate state curriculum decisions and classroom activities. 

  • SOURCE: New York Times
    11/7/2022

    What Links COVID and Curriculum Conflicts in Schools?

    Education historians Jack Schneider and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explain why there's a significant overlap between parents, especially conservatives, who objected to pandemic school closures and those who are demanding more control over curriculum decisions. 

  • SOURCE: Perspectives on History
    10/26/2022

    Partisan Politics on a State Standards Revision

    by Stephen Jackson

    The South Dakota Department of Education discarded the recommendations of a work group of scholars, educators and elected officials in favor of a second group appointed by the governor, including political allies and an emeritus professor from Hillsdale College, seriously undermining rigor in the state social studies curriculum. 

  • 2/20/2022

    Lessons from the History Textbook Wars of the 1920s

    by Bruce W. Dearstyne

    Historians helped defuse a national tempest over allegedly unpatriotic textbooks in the 1920s by explaining the nature of professional historical research, interpretation, and dissemination, and insisting on the right and duty of professionals to exert expertise. That kind of work is needed again today. 

  • SOURCE: Washington Post
    2/14/2022

    New Laws have Teachers Confused, Scared, and Self-Censoring

    Few new laws have (yet) impacted the curriculum or resulted in the prosecution of teachers. But nevertheless, history and social studies teachers across America report a real chilling effect from laws that subject them to community surveillance and censure. 

  • SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
    2/10/2022

    How Will K-12 Book Bans Impact Higher Ed?

    Social media are enabling like-minded parents to network and amplify calls to remove books from schools and libraries. Experts argue that parents' success will fail children's intellectual development and college readiness. 

  • SOURCE: New Hampshire Public Radio
    1/24/2022

    New Hampshire Bill Would Require Teaching Labor History

    Rep. Eric Gallagher, the bill's sponsor, argued that instead of focusing on the workforce development needs of employers the state's curriculum should inform students about "what sort of skills they might need to stand up to their boss."

  • SOURCE: EdWeek
    1/18/2022

    Revising America’s Racist Past

    The organized campaign to demonize and ban "Critical Race Theory" has resulted in legislation that is disrupting the crafting and implementation of curriculum standards in multiple states, a review of state education standards and public comments on them reveals.