Newton Superintendent Responds to Concerns About High School History Curriculum
Fleishman also responded with an FAQ about the high schools' history curriculum.
Updated Dec. 10, 10:50 a.m. After a group of residents brought forward concerns about certain materials in Newton high school history classes, Superintendent David Fleishman offered information last week on how the curriculum is handled in the city's high schools. "There has been some public comment over the last year and talk about our history curriculum," Fleishman said. "We've [received] questions about our history curriculum from people who haven't been sitting in the audience." The discussion started last year when a group of parents and residents brought forward concerns about an excerpt of the Arab World Studies Notebook that was handed out in a freshman history course at Newton South. The material, the group said, was "anti-…
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