The social studies rewrite has become a thorny political process, with officials clashing over the portrayal of slavery, ...

TEXAS, USA — This story was first published in The Texas Tribune and can be viewed here. A new Texas curriculum seeks to captivate first-grade students with a lesson on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s ...

The State Board of Education will likely vote on the lessons in November. If members give their seal of approval, it will enable districts to tap into extra state funding meant to encourage schools to ...

A state legislator on Monday suggested the Texas Education Agency removed references to Islam and bolstered mentions of Christianity in a new state-written curriculum that public schools could be ...

“Nudity on a state flag is an absurd justification to censor a history lesson,” ACLU Staff Attorney Chloe Kempf told Hyperallergic. We needed a magnifying glass to find the offending nipple on ...

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