What should kids learn in social studies class?
It’s a question that has animated adults across Minnesota over the past three years, as the state’s education department has churned through a bureaucratic process of updating its K–12 social studies standards. Standards are the major concepts and skills all Minnesota public schools are expected to teach; each subject area gets an update every 10 years.
One flashpoint has been whether Minnesota should add ethnic studies to the social studies standards. It’s a…
