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"It is painful that the legislators — elected to represent their constituents — did not bring the standards to a vote," ...
Teachers are turning their students into sleuthing historians with assignments that have them digging through historic ...
Retired teacher Benita Albert shares with us the stories of Malachi Bonner, Lily Shelton, and Peyton Uptgraft.
The Hancock County Board of Education, Monday, approved a series of textbooks for use over the next four years, while declaring two school buses as surplus property. As part of the board’s regular ...
In less than four months, a new school year will begin and teachers will start teaching the hotly contested new South Dakota social studies standards.
Parents, teachers sue Oklahoma over new social studies standards, alleging illegal adoption and religious bias in curriculum.
Lawmakers who back the change say the new math requirements more realistically reflect what high school students need to know ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Oklahoma Senate Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton (R-Tuttle) said the Senate would not consider a joint resolution against the new social studies guidelines by the May 1st deadline.
IN OKLAHOMA CLASSROOMS. YEAH, THE BIGGEST COMPLAINT FOR REPUBLICANS WERE ABOUT THE SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS, WHERE THE PROCESS BY WHICH THEY WERE APPROVED. BUT DEMOCRATS ALSO ARGUED IT’S NOT JUST THAT ...
Despite bipartisan calls for a resolution to reject controversial proposed social studies standards, the legislature let Tuesday’s deadline pass without a floor hearing. The standards have been a ...
Oklahoma’s controversial new social studies standards – which contain more than 200 changes the new members of the Board of Education say they were not told about– are likely to go into ...