San Francisco’s public school kids should finally recognize the world depicted in their social studies classes next fall after the district’s first curriculum update since 2006 — when iPods dominated the music market, only birds tweeted and same-sex couples couldn’t marry in California.
The school board, at its April 28 meeting, is expected to approve new history and social studies materials as well as an official ethnic studies curriculum, the latter a topic of impassioned debate over the past couple of years.
The updates are part of a “sweeping modernization” of course content across the district, and specifically in which social science materials are “outdated and do not fully reflect the district’s values,” officials said…