AHA senior program analyst Julia Brookins testified before the Texas State Board of Education twice in November 2024. On November 18, she spoke about the proposed approval of Bluebonnet Learning, new reading and language arts instructional materials developed by the Texas Education Agency; Brookins explained in her testimony why the history content is “a great disappointment.” On November 22, she testified about the AHA’s 2024 report, American Lesson Plan: Teaching US History in Secondary Schools. The report provides empirical evidence and rigorous analysis to inform current debates over how history is taught in our schools. Brookins discussed the report’s conclusions: “Number one: secondary US history teachers are professionals who are concerned mostly with helping their students learn.”
