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What should high school history teach on hip-hop? Immigration? Texas board debates
- 01-19-2010
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USA Today
Texas' board of education tackled high school history Friday, debating hip-hop and deciding how McCarthyism and immigration would be taught under new standards for teaching social studies that could affect students nationwide. The State Board of Education was expected to take a first vote on the guidelines later Friday, after several days of discussion on topics such as which historical figures to hold students accountable for learning and whether second graders should be taught Aesop's Fables. A final vote was due in March. On Friday, the board waded through amendments for a third day, declining to strike the "Red Scare" from a high school history class and adding a reference to the Venona Papers, research that "confirmed suspicions of communist infiltration in U.S. government." (more...)
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