KILLEEN, Texas — Leading the next generation of teachers, one A&M-Central Texas professor hopes her fellowship with Holocaust Museum Houston makes a big difference.

"This is my 49th year of being a teacher in the classroom," Dr. Linda Black said. 

Black prepares people to become teachers. She's an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at A&M-Central Texas.

"These students are going to be out in the classroom so they need very specific strategies to use with children as early as early childhood all the way up through eighth grade," Black explained. 

The discussion of parent control in education continues across the nation.

A December survey by Education Week of more than a thousand school leaders and teachers found that 50% of educators said parents should be somewhat involved in selecting curriculum and materials.

"Parents want the very best for their children. They want the very best curriculum, the very best classrooms, the very best teachers. And so do teachers. Teachers want the very best," Black said.  

And the very best is what Black strives for. She was recently selected for Holocaust Museum Houston's Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers.

Wendy Warren is the director of education at the museum. The fellowship is all about learning the history of the Holocaust and other genocides and how to teach these histories to students of different ages.

"So that we can have a corps of teachers all over Texas who are proficient and really passionate," Warren said.