Posted on 05/20/2011 3:36:27 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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.
"You can't have excellence when kids are working under anachronistic standards," said Feuer, D-Los Angeles, whose Assembly Bill 1033 would allow California's schools chief and Board of Education to decide jointly whether to revise grade-by-grade content standards.
Feuer's bill would allow for the creation of a 25-member standards review commission. Numerous academic subjects could be reviewed, but Feuer's focus clearly is on history, science and social studies because of developments in stem cell research, genetic engineering, global warming and other areas.
.......Bob Fendall, Sheldon High School's science department chairman, would like to see a revision do more than simply add new "factoids" to a jam-packed curriculum without boosting critical thinking or problem solving.
Pending legislation, Senate Bill 48, would require that students learn of contributions by people with disabilities and of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans.
....Texas, in revising curriculum, sparked national debate last year by weighing dozens of hot issues, from whether hip-hop should be included in lessons on American culture to whether Thomas Jefferson's role as a founding father should be played down.
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Hmmmmmmm
Senate Bill 48, would require that students learn of contributions by people with disabilities and of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans.
Will they want a LGBT history month?
Yep! Time to “rewrite” state history so that the children can “get their mind right” and become good little socialists and uber liberals.
There is one. I think it's October.
There’s nothing wrong with adding new material about the past dozen years but some of the examples are eye rolling.
There’s nothing wrong with adding new material about the past dozen years but some of the examples are eye rolling.
There’s nothing wrong with adding new material about the past dozen years but some of the examples are eye rolling.
I don’t think you understand the word “rewrite” verses “write new” history.
By the way, your three posts in a row to me was not necessary for I know what words and phrases mean.
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