California to revise textbooks to reflect diversity

Bill Honig, vice chairman of the Instruction Quality Commission, says the new framework will include more on economics and civics, with an emphasis on asking students lots of questions about why something happened.

Updates include adding climate change to the list of reasons that people might voluntarily leave their homeland, and adding respect for the rights of others as a way for kindergarten students to learn about good citizenship.

For higher grades, it calls for more details about Filipino contributions to the U.S. effort during World War II as well as a section about human trafficking focused on Asian "comfort women" taken by the Japanese military to serve as sex slaves during World War II.