Brown is cutting ties with the Choices Program, a long-running high school history curriculum used by over a million students nationwide, citing the program’s financial challenges that could not be effectively managed with existing University resources.
In a Friday Today@Brown announcement, Provost Francis Doyle wrote that the program, founded in 1989, had been facing “financial and staffing challenges” and a weak future sales outlook.
The Choices Program was launched as an outgrowth of Cold War-era educational research and has been housed in Brown’s history department since 2018, according to the program’s website. Since its launch, the program’s curriculum catalogue has grown to include over 40 units, with topics ranging from the American Revolution to the Syrian Civil War as well as a series on current events. According to the program’s website, its materials are now used each year by around a million students…