TEXAS, USA — This story was first published in The Texas Tribune and can be viewed here. A new Texas curriculum seeks to captivate first-grade students with a lesson on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s ...
The State Board of Education voted Friday to approve a social studies plan that would teach more Texas history across school grades and deemphasize other subjects like world history, cultures and ...
Roughly half of Texas students read below grade level, but when teachers craft lessons to help them, they often rely on instructional materials that aren't rigorous enough. Many teachers use search ...
A major decision is unfolding in Texas that could shape what millions of students learn in the classroom, including how topics like slavery, religion, and American history are taught. The Texas State ...
The grant will help the UNT library system with the educational outreach component of the Portal to Texas History, called Texas History for Teachers. With History for Teachers, the Portal to Texas ...
An overhaul of Texas’ social studies curriculum has turned into a struggle between classroom teachers and a panel of outside advisers who want to reorient history around the country’s roots in ...
The Republican-led State Board of Education rejected a proposal favored by conservative activists to overhaul the state’s social studies curriculum by requiring a heavier concentration of Texas ...
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