EDINBURG – At a news conference at the Museum of South Texas History, The UTRGV B3 Institute received a $2 million-grant from the U.S. Department of Education for their new program Historias Americanas: Engaging History and Citizenship in the Rio Grande Valley. The place-based professional development program for K-12 teachers is being developed by UTRGV faculty in collaboration with Edinburg and Brownsville school districts. The program will bring together 75 teachers each year over a three-year period so they can develop other methods of teaching other that what they already know in current and historical understandings of American history, civics, government and geography...
