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Texas Textbook Resolution
On May 11, the OAH Executive Board of Directors approved the following resolution:
The Organization of American Historians supports the efforts of the professionally trained educators of Texas to achieve and maintain a history curriculum that reflects the basic consensus of scholarship. Those efforts have been compromised by the Texas State Board of Education through the revisions that it has proposed to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies. These amendments promote politically sectarian perspectives and thereby diminish the capacity of teachers to present students with an understanding of the past that conveys the best, most professional historical research available. The Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians, an association with nearly 9,000 members, calls upon officials of the state of Texas to adopt a history curriculum that reflects the understanding of history developed by the historians and history teachers of Texas.
For more information on the Texas State Board of Education revision, please see:
