On the Beat in Bluffton

Thursday, March 13, 2014

N-B Links: State adopts new social studies standards

The Indiana State Board of Education — including Uniondale resident Cari Whicker — almost unanimously approved Wednesday social studies standards for Indiana’s public schools.

Board member Andrea Neal, a teacher, alone voted against them, concerned that the revised standards removed examples that help teachers illustrate and students apply the subject’s themes.

Learn more in the Thursday, March 13, News-Banner, but to study the standards, click here, and to read a formal critique of them, click here.

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