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Assemblyman Mike Feuer urges upgrading of outdated state history, social studies curriculum
- 05-20-2011
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By Jim Sanders/Sacramento Bee
California students are not required to know about the World Trade Center attacks. Or President Barack Obama's election as the nation's first African American president. Or the fight over gay marriage, or fallout over foreclosures, or Gov. Gray Davis' recall, or the 2001 energy crisis. California's academic content standards for history and social studies have not been revised since their adoption in 1998 – but there's a push by lawmakers to change that. Assemblyman Mike Feuer has crafted legislation aimed at updating the aging standards, developed before the war on terror, iPhones or the state's energy crisis. (more...)
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