Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is taking heat after it was discovered that he made his sixth-grade public school students write “Obama memoirs" celebrating his election.

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The University of Texas’s College of Liberal Arts will consolidate its long-standing ethnic and gender studies programs into one new department. The university will immediately begin the process of ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The State Board of Education took its final look at new social studies standards, KCCI reports. The state panel that oversees Iowa’s education system approved new social studies ...

Middle-schoolers at Indian Prairie School District 204 will see some different course offerings next year. The district’s school board recently approved changes to two current offerings, and heard a ...

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(The Texas Tribune) The State Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies teaching plan that will dedicate more time across school grades to Texas and U.S. history while placing less ...

The State Board of Education voted Friday to approve a social studies plan that would teach more Texas history across school grades and deemphasize other subjects like world history, cultures and ...