DALLAS — Texas educators now have a slight road map on how to teach students history lessons that align with the “anti-critical race theory” law signed last year.
The State Board of Education approved minor changes Monday that included, for example, expanding on students’ skills so they can discern credible information. Doing so will allow them to “evaluate a variety of historical and contemporary sources for validity, credibility, bias and accuracy” and ways to “use voting as a method for group decision making,” according to state outlines.
The tweaks were an incremental step forward in Texas’ rewrite of state social studies standards that has been derailed by political fighting. The minor adjustments were needed now to help schools comply with the new law that was touted as a tougher ban on critical race theory, though it was filled with vague language and did not use those three words.
