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Article: More inclusion urged in SOL curriculums.(Metropolitan)(Virginia)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 9, 2001
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Dozens of parents and educators overall gave plaudits to proposed revisions of the Virginia Standards of Learning curriculums last night but argued that more-inclusive changes should be made to the final draft.
At a public hearing at Falls Church High School, some educators said the changes, which were released last month, do not include the contributions of minorities and omit what they called "key political figures" in Virginia's history.
Carla Garfield, a fourth-grade teacher at Columbia Elementary School in Annandale, told representatives of the state Board of Education she was surprised that Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was not mentioned in ...