The American Historical Association, the Virginia Social Studies Leaders Consortium, and the Virginia Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development \u201chave collaborated to share their collective knowledge, experience, and expertise\u201d to draft proposed history and social science standards for K\u201312 schools. Our work responds to the Virginia Board of Education\u2019s (VBOE) determination at its recent meeting that neither of the two documents on the table were satisfactory; a new draft was needed that would combine the two proposals with reference to the existing (2015) standards. We are grateful to our partners for inviting the AHA to participate in the standards revision process.<\/p>\n
Brief Background<\/strong><\/p>\n In October, the AHA sent<\/a> a letter to the Virginia Department of Education urging adoption of draft standards of learning for history and social science submitted in August, and reiterating the AHA\u2019s offer to assist if revisions were necessary. In November, the AHA encouraged historians to testify at a VBOE hearing that would consider the August proposal and a new document that was deeply flawed, rooted partly in the ill-fated federal \u201c1776 Commission<\/a>\u201c report (2021). The AHA\u2019s letter warned<\/a> that \u201ca new version of revised standards<\/a>, dated November 11, would create substantial gaps in the knowledge, historical thinking skills, and habits of mind taught to Virginia students.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The American Historical Association, the Virginia Social Studies Leaders Consortium, and the Virginia Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development \u201chave…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17025,"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":"The AHA, the Virginia Social Studies Leaders Consortium, and the Virginia Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development have collaborated to draft proposed history and social science standards for K\u201312 schools.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"aha-topic":[63,66,59],"month":[563],"geographic-taxonomy":[56],"post-type":[10,613],"thematic-taxonomy":[45],"year":[106],"class_list":{"0":"post-26109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"aha-topic-k-12-education","8":"aha-topic-social-studies-standards","9":"aha-topic-teaching-learning","10":"month-december","11":"geographic-taxonomy-united-states","12":"post-type-advocacy","13":"post-type-history-education","14":"thematic-taxonomy-state-local-us","15":"year-106","24":"year-2022","25":"has-featured-image"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26109","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65763,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26109\/revisions\/65763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aha-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aha-topic?post=26109"},{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=26109"},{"taxonomy":"geographic-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/geographic-taxonomy?post=26109"},{"taxonomy":"post-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-type?post=26109"},{"taxonomy":"thematic-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thematic-taxonomy?post=26109"},{"taxonomy":"year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year?post=26109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}