State to look at changes to Texas history curriculum [View all]
The Texas Board of Education next month will discuss eliminating a yearlong Texas history course for elementary students by 2025.
The board is set to meet in special session at 8 a.m. Monday, Aug. 1, when they will discuss overhauling school standards for social studies courses, which includes removing Texas history from the fourth grade curriculum.
Instead, students in kindergarten though second grade would discuss themes in Texas, U.S. and world history.
Students in third though fifth grade would focus on world history from the end of the Stone Age — around 5000 BC — to Christopher Columbus’ voyages — around 1500.
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(Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel)
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