Teachers, advocacy groups angered by Virginia’s proposed changes to history education

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Teachers, school officials, historians and advocacy groups are expressing anger this week after a new draft of the Virginia social studies standards appears to have largely thrown out a version of the draft that experts spent months developing.

“I don’t see this as a re-draft, I see this as a new draft,” said Norfolk State University’s Cassandra Newby-Alexander, a history professor and co-chair of the Virginia Commission on African American History Education. Newby-Alexander was involved in the development of the original 2022 standards which were released this summer.

Read more on The Virginian-Pilot.

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