History teachers strive to show students what the past can tell us about today. But what can state standards on history education teach students about the past, present and how to think critically? A ...

The practice of states revising standards for how their schools teach history is developing a storied and often contentious history of its own. A University of Kansas scholar has published new ...

The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for how Black history should be taught in the state’s public schools, sparking criticism from education and civil rights advocates who ...

Imagine a version of American history in which race, ethnicity and gender provide the overriding theme. Such a telling of the American story would distort one of our country’s most important ...

Middle school students in Mayade Ersoff’s Miami-Dade social studies class learn about the history of slavery in America through art. After lessons, students illustrate the harsh realities that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, the Florida Board of Education unanimously approved a controversial new curriculum for African American history for ...

As debate continues around the development and adoption of common standards in English and mathematics, several states are independently wrestling with rewrites of standards in a content area largely ...

A majority of states received failing or near-failing grades on the quality of their standards for teaching history in K-12 schools, according to the latest review from the Washington-based Thomas B.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida approved new standards for African American history Wednesday that state officials called “robust” and claimed address ...

The Virginia Board of Education plans to vote on proposed revisions to state standards for history and social studies lessons early next year, state officials shared Wednesday, although board members ...

The American Revolution “called into question” relationships between man and woman and parent and child. The Great Depression ranks with the American Revolution in “its effects on the lives of ...

LAWRENCE — The practice of states revising standards for how their schools teach history is developing a storied and often contentious history of its own. A University of Kansas scholar has published ...