social studies

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/31/2023
  

  Can We Solve the Civics Education Crisis?

  by Glenn C. Altschuler and David Wippman

  Universal schooling created the potential for a unifying civic curriculum that, paradoxically, has been the subject of perpetual disagreement regarding its contents. A recent bipartisan roadmap for civics education that makes those disagreements central to the subject matter may be the only way to move forward. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/10/2023
  

  Florida Rejects Social Studies Topics on Communism, "Taking a Knee"

  by Valerie Strauss

  After rejecting more than 80 percent of proposed materials for K-12 social studies courses, Florida accepted many revised materials but still rejected 35 percent. Topics refused? Social justice in the Hebrew Bible, national anthem protests, and prosperous countries with socialist economies. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  5/9/2023
  

  MAGA School Board Faces Backlash in Colorado

  When a right-wing slate of school board candidates took office in Woodland Park, Colorado, they hoped to "flood the zone" with rapid changes to curriculum, teacher policy, charter schools, and more. The public has become less enthusiastic, even many conservatives. 

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• 1/22/2023
  

  Why CRT Belongs in the Classroom, and How to Do It Right

  by Stacie Brensilver Berman, Robert Cohen, and Ryan Mills

  "If classroom realities matter at all to those governors and state legislators who imposed CRT bans on schools, they ought to be embarrassed at having barred students in their states from the kind of thought provoking teaching we witnessed in this project."

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• 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. 

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• 12/11/2022
  

  Virginia's "Guiding Principles" are a Right-Wing Fantasy of History

  by Alan J. Singer

  Governor Youngkin's allies on Virginia's commission to review state social studies standards have hijacked the process to advance a right-wing vision of history education in the state that expunges "divisive concepts" from the curriculum. 

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• SOURCE: Cleveland.com
  11/7/2022
  

  Nat'l Teacher of the Year Has No Plans to Stop Teaching Controversial Material

  “I don’t want to be defiant, said Russell. “My sole purpose as a teacher is to provide my students with a holistic education and I don’t believe -- through my lived experience -- that taking away certain subjects or certain books will do so."

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• 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. 

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• SOURCE: ChalkBeat
  10/12/2022
  

  BOE Member who Wrongly Identifies Nazis as "Socialists" Shapes How Colorado Students Learn Holocaust History

  Historians and teachers argue that tying limited space for Holocaust and genocide education in the curriculum to a crusade against leftist politics is distracting and an antisemitic hijacking of education by politics. 

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  8/1/2021
  

  Sen. Hawley: Public Schools Must Make Kids Love America and the Founding

  by Josh Hawley

  Senator Josh Hawley argues that public schools are obligated to teach "the truth about our history and our purpose that unites us as a nation."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/7/2021
  

  Texas School’s Lesson on Chivalry Asked Girls to ‘Walk Daintily’ and Obey Men

  Students interviewed were divided between recognizing the pedagogical goal of showing how chivalry could excuse the subordination of women, others (and some parents) disagreed with the method. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  11/9/19
  

  Nebraska Just Approved More Inclusive Social Studies Guidelines. They're a Window Into the Changing Way Kids Are Learning U.S. History

  Steps taken in Nebraska are a window into the way that conversation is changing, amid increased public scrutiny of what American students are learning about history.

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• SOURCE: The Center for Michigan
  6-12-18
  

  History gets a conservative twist in Michigan social studies standards

  References to gay rights, Roe v. Wade, climate change and “core democratic values” have been stripped from Michigan’s new proposed social studies standards.

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• SOURCE: AHA Today
  12-3-14
  

  AHA Council Issues Letter of Concern Regarding the New York Board of Regents Proposed Modifications to Exams

  AHA is concerned about loosening of requirements for social studies.