New curriculum standards include Arkansas history

The state Board of Education approved new guidelines today for teaching Arkansas history in the classroom. Here's the Associated Press article from today's meeting. Arkansas history will now be taught to seventh- and eighth-graders as part of the approved curriculum. Previous guidelines that went into effect this fall combined social studies and Arkansas history into one subject for kindergartners through sixth graders, which fueled criticism from the Arkansas History Education Coalition. For previous entries on this subject, click here and here.