Urdahl comments on new social studies standards with emphasis on ethnicity

(St. Paul MN-) The social studies classes in Minnesota Public Schools will have more emphasis on ethnicity after a judge’s ruling earlier this month. The Minnesota Legislature ordered all schools infuse “ethnic studies” into it’s social studies classes, and that order was challenged in court, but Administrative Law Judge Eric Lipman ruled the ethnic studies could go forward. Representative Dean Urdahl of Grove City was a long time social studies and history teacher in the New London-Spicer School District and says the wording that’s used in the new standards is divisive…

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