Oregon schools will be required to teach about the Holocaust
SALEM — Oregon will require public schools to teach about the Holocaust under a measure sent to the governor.
Lawmakers unanimously voted Tuesday to add Holocaust instruction to the school curriculum starting in the 2019-2020 school year. Ten other states require some level of genocide education in schools.
A recent poll found that one in five American millennials surveyed were unfamiliar with the Holocaust.
Some say that those awareness gaps can have consequences. The Anti-Defamation League reports that anti-Semitic incidents at K-12 schools quadrupled from 2015 to 2017.
Read more: https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2019/05/oregon-schools-will-be-required-to-teach-about-the-holocaust.html
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