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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

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Fordham Institute , an education policy think tank, which directly linked minutes of social studies instruction to higher reading scores. It also plans to analyze lesson plans created by the 1619 Project , which grew out of a series of New York Times stories that reframe American history around slavery and its consequences.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

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Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies By November, when a slate of Republican school board candidates who’d campaigned against DEI was elected , the changes started to come hard and fast. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.