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22+ hour, 17+ min ago   (250+ words) AUSTIN — The Texas State Board of Education concluded its June 22-26 meeting with major decisions affecting the future of public education across the state, including the adoption of revised social studies standards and continued work on new personal financial literacy requirements…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (97+ words) On Saturday, July 25, Upson County NAACP will present panel workshop “Know Your Rights: Community Education and Civic Empowerment” at A Place of Refuge. The workshop will include topics of community health, safety, and justice. Guest panelists include Renee Harris, retired…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (26+ words) Most adults fail this extremely basic world geography exam. Let's see if you can beat the odds and prove you've got a ton of worldly knowledge....

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (293+ words) I recently took an online history test with questions drawn from standardized tests for eighth-graders. I guess I did better than a lot of eighth-graders because I answered all the questions correctly but then I was a college history major…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (358+ words) The board’s nine appointed content advisors also removed standards that defined racial segregation as “keeping people apart based on the color of their skin” and specified that Africans endured slavery in the U.S. because of their race. That’s a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (642+ words) A state curriculum, a reading list, and new social studies standards add up to a coherent—and unfashionable—vision of what public schools are for. This June, the Texas State Board of Education adopted new social studies standards and a…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (132+ words) The Knesset House Committee approved the proposed Basic Law: Torah Study on Thursday evening for its second and third readings.During the discussion, the committee adopted an amendment submitted by its chairman to remove the second clause of the bill,…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (675+ words) This June, the Texas State Board of Education adopted new social studies standards and a required literature reading list for its public schools. These changes follow Texas’s 2024 release of its “Bluebonnet” curriculum, a package of instructional resources for elementary school,…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (175+ words) University of Phoenix College of General Studies announces the publication of a new peer-reviewed article in The Geography Teacher, authored by Jacquelyn Kelly, Ph.D., associate dean, College of General Studies; Dianna Gielstra, Ph.D., full-time faculty, Environmental Science Program; Tomáš J....

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (1220+ words) Both Minnesota and Texas are in the process of implementing new social studies standards that brought backlash for their politicized origin, alleged instructional bias, and sweeping changes. Besides the fact that Texas boasts the beginning of Interstate-35 and Minnesota the…...