In 2014, math standards were revised, drawing criticism from parents and teachers. Five years ago, members clashed over whether science books should have to teach an alternative to evolution. The board's process has always garnered attention - and often controversy. Its members, currently five Democrats and 10 Republicans, are elected to four-year terms and represent specific geographic areas. Slavery, eugenics and Alamo heroes: What made the cut?Įach year, the board discusses and debates new classroom standards for Texas' 5.4 million schoolchildren. Students in that grade are still required to learn about former President Bill Clinton's impeachment. There was no comment next to the recommendation to remove Clinton. Military and first responders are best represented." In a note next to the deletion from the third-grade social studies curriculum in which Keller was included in a lesson about "the characteristics of good citizenship," the work group wrote, "Helen Keller does not best represent the concept of citizenship. Neither Poth nor Matthews said she was in the small group that made the decisions about Clinton and Keller. Fourth-graders have 70 required or recommended historical figures to learn, and in eighth grade, when students take the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness social studies test, there are 50 people on the list. Third-graders, for example, should learn about three dozen figures. “Do we need her now?” Cook asks.Jana Poth added that the work group did "not want to offend anyone" with its choices. Roosevelt also called for free education through college in 1943, for example, and also argued that lower student/teacher ratios would lead to full employment. She was troubled by her husband’s official stance on refugees for much of World War II, and quietly worked behind the scenes to get more migrants into the U.S. to engage in WWII, she hoped civilizations would spend more time planning for future peace. “The crime bill of 1994-how did that ever get contemplated by a Democrat? It has resulted in the new Jim Crow.”Īnd, while Roosevelt understood the need for the U.S. “When we think about the astonishing horror of this moment, in terms of the school-to-prison pipeline, in terms of the prison-industrial complex, Eleanor Roosevelt would be horrified,” says Cook, who is also a Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletterīut Cook-who does a mean Roosevelt impression and was wearing a peace sign button on one lapel and a Hillary Clinton/Elizabeth Warren button on the other when she met with TIME-suggests that Roosevelt’s legacy is more liberal than Clinton’s will be.
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