Brooke Dollens Terry, education policy analyst in the Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, presented this testimony on SB 1643 regarding teacher quality before the Senate Education Committee.
K-12 Education
Connecting History to Students’ Daily Lives
Right now, the only world history most Texas students receive in elementary and middle school happens in sixth grade World Cultures—and even then, it is limited. Students may briefly learn about the origin of certain holidays or study Ancient Greece as the birthplace of democracy. But too often, that is where the story ends. What...
February 25, 2026