The State Board of Education approved an early draft of social studies changes, setting up a vote in June that will determine ...

The State Board of Education spent this week hashing out what an overhaul of social studies would look like. The new ...

Texas Republicans voiced support for proposed social studies TEKS at a Tuesday SBOE meeting while opposing the inclusion of ...

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SALT LAKE CITY, March 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Western Governors University (WGU), the nation’s largest nonprofit university, announced plans today to develop a new headquarters in downtown Salt ...

When it comes to determining exactly what public schools are required to teach and students must learn in any given class, look no further than the Board of Education state standards. In a perfect ...

Teenagers who use social media more frequently may show slightly higher empathy, according to a new meta-analysis by researchers at Georgia State University. The study, a systematic review published ...

When Ben Zulauf started looking for a social studies curriculum just over two years ago, he wasn’t quite sure where to begin. Zulauf, the director of literacy and social studies in the Cicero School ...

A 2025 vote by the State Board of Education approved changes to the Texas education standards for social studies, shifting focus from culture and world history to favor Texas and U.S. History. The ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) is working to reshape the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for social studies. Chief among the proposed changes — making Texas ...

The University of Texas’s College of Liberal Arts will consolidate its long-standing ethnic and gender studies programs into one new department. The university will immediately begin the process of ...