San Francisco public schools will introduce new history and social studies materials in elementary and high school classrooms for the first time in more than 20 years next fall, under a curriculum overhaul set to be approved this month.
The city’s school board is also set to permanently shelve its pioneering ethnic studies curriculum in favor of an off-the-shelf alternative after the homegrown course was put on pause following controversy last summer.
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Superintendent Maria Su said the new history and social studies materials will replace sorely outdated textbooks, in which George W. Bush is president of the United States and self-driving cars and smartphones are still far-off ideas.
“That day not only happened already, but it happened like five years ago,” Su said. “We’re way behind on this.”
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