Mississippi Makes Educational Move
More than fifty years after the civil rights movement that affected and reconstructed the entire way of American life one of the states heavily involved in that movement is still making changes. A few days ago Mississippi became the first state to integrate Civil Rights Curriculum in grades K-12. The civil Rights/Human Rights Curriculum will become mandatory in the 2011-2012 school year. This requirement was signed into law five years ago, educators say the implementation of the new required studies took so long due to simultaneous reconstruction of the Social Studies curriculum as a whole.
Civil Rights has even become a part of a placement test that all students in the state are required to take in order to graduate to make sure that the material is indeed being taught. However there are still questions about what textbooks and materials the students will be taught with. Teachers also say that field trips to historical civil rights locations around the state will be apart of the learning process.
Hopefully this is a law that will be passed in other states and even on a national level. With Mississippi's poor reputation in education, allowing the studies of the Civil Rights movement to be taught year round on a state wide level is a major step in the right direction. Especially considering a time period that is other wise briefly glazed over in a 28day period during black history month. Now students will be allowed more in-depth knowledge to an era that helped shaped the United States all within a State that played a key part in that movement and is now continuing to keep it's story alive.
*For more information visit the Atlanta Post or Associated Press sites
Civil Rights has even become a part of a placement test that all students in the state are required to take in order to graduate to make sure that the material is indeed being taught. However there are still questions about what textbooks and materials the students will be taught with. Teachers also say that field trips to historical civil rights locations around the state will be apart of the learning process.
Hopefully this is a law that will be passed in other states and even on a national level. With Mississippi's poor reputation in education, allowing the studies of the Civil Rights movement to be taught year round on a state wide level is a major step in the right direction. Especially considering a time period that is other wise briefly glazed over in a 28day period during black history month. Now students will be allowed more in-depth knowledge to an era that helped shaped the United States all within a State that played a key part in that movement and is now continuing to keep it's story alive.
*For more information visit the Atlanta Post or Associated Press sites
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