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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Jaden Edison

How some Texas parents and historians say a new state curriculum glosses over slavery and racism

A U.S. History classroom at Akins High School in Austin, on October 2018.
Texas parents and historians say a new state curriculum's lessons on the country's history of slavery, racism and civil rights omit key context. The teaching materials are currently under review. (Credit: Rachel Zein for The Texas Tribune)

A new Texas curriculum seeks to captivate first-grade students with a lesson on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s historic estate long revered for its French neoclassical architecture and as a symbol of the founding father’s genius.

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