{"id":108367,"date":"2025-12-02T09:39:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/?p=108367"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:39:43","slug":"aha-staff-and-members-speak-out-to-improve-texas-state-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/news\/aha-staff-and-members-speak-out-to-improve-texas-state-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"AHA Staff and Members Speak Out to Improve Texas State Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AHA senior program analyst Julia Brookins and member Steven Mintz testified in public comments to the Texas State Board of Education sharing their concerns about ongoing revisions to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) social studies standards. Quoted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/education\/2025\/11\/21\/texas-education-board-to-overhaul-social-studies-curriculum-with-greater-focus-on-texas\/\"><em>Dallas Morning News<\/em><\/a>, Brookins said, \u201cThe last big question today is, what is worth knowing? There is a real opportunity here to support social studies instruction that opens up worlds of learning to Texas students.\u201d Mintz criticized the new course sequence approved in September as \u201cimbalanced,\u201d stating, \u201cThis is an abomination of history, if we want to prepare students.\u201d AHA member Yolanda Levya was named to the panel of content advisers supporting the standards revision. \u201cI\u2019m hopeful that when we talk about people fighting for freedom, we include people of color, because people of color have been fighting for the U.S. to live up to its equality and liberty ideals,\u201d Levya said to the <em>Morning News<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AHA senior program analyst Julia Brookins and member Steven Mintz testified in public comments to the Texas State Board of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"aha-topic":[],"month":[],"geographic-taxonomy":[],"post-type":[579,10,582,613],"thematic-taxonomy":[],"year":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-108367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"post-type-academic-freedom","8":"post-type-advocacy","9":"post-type-aha-in-news","10":"post-type-history-education","15":"has-featured-image"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108370,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108367\/revisions\/108370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aha-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aha-topic?post=108367"},{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=108367"},{"taxonomy":"geographic-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/geographic-taxonomy?post=108367"},{"taxonomy":"post-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-type?post=108367"},{"taxonomy":"thematic-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thematic-taxonomy?post=108367"},{"taxonomy":"year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year?post=108367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}