The AHA is part of a partnership with twenty other organizations to promote an alternative to the Obama administration’s plans for several subject based programs, including Teaching American History, that will be affected by the pending reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The administration’s blueprint would combine subject specific grant programs into a single competitive program in which various subjects would be pitted against each other for resources.

Read the full Consensus Recommendations for a Well-Rounded Education (PDF) and see the ASCD’s Press Release (PDF).

This post first appeared on AHA Today.