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Ethnicity, gender, climate: How Minnesota is changing the way it teaches social studies
The draft standards, according to Doug Paulson, the state education department’s academic standards director, are “more inclusive” and “culturally affirming.”
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Josh Verges / St. Paul Pioneer Press | 2:45 pm, Dec. 27, 2020 ×
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ST. PAUL Minnesota’s K-12 social studies standards are undergoing extensive revisions in search of a more inclusive approach that teaches about people previously left out of the discussion.
A diverse committee’s first draft, now open for public comment, gives greater consideration to the Dakota and Anishinaabe tribes and covers for the first time the civil rights struggles of LGBTQ people.