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The board also decided to keep Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller in the curriculum, reversing a decision that made headlines in September. Clinton and Keller wer
by apo 8y ago
The board also decided to keep Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller in the curriculum, reversing a decision that made headlines in September. Clinton and Keller were initially removed, along with other historical figures, in an effort to "streamline" the state's social studies standards.
Having gotten a close-up sample of California's approach to teaching history, any coverage that Texas may have been giving to Clinton and Keller would probably have amounted to one bullet point at best in practice. This is just political posturing.
- kodablah 8y ago> This is just political posturing. This is often the case as I see it due to the differences between the perceived methods of teaching/learning history and the actual methods (coupled with the differences in value too). Once reasonable comprehension can occur in youth, knowledge is obtained these days from a multitude of sources. Also history teachers, more than others, tend to deviate based on personal preferences making centralized bullet points only as valuable as their disseminators. While this may sound scary, good teachers like historical orators of the past can do wonders with narratives. Regardless, children obtain so much from the internet, documentaries, and other avenues of self learning that specific textbook statements are often overvalued simply out of fear of misrepresentation.