Texas Board Of Education Approves More Conservative Curriculum

[cal04]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/21/texas-board-of-education-_n_584697.html

The Texas State Board of Education adopted new social studies and history guidelines Friday for classrooms in an ideological debate over academic standards that has drawn intense scrutiny.

The board gave the curriculum a more conservative bent by dictating how political events and figures will be taught to some 4.8 million primary and high school students in Texas and beyond for the next decade.

The standards also will be used by textbook publishers who often develop materials for other states based on those approved in Texas.

The board took separate votes on standards for high schools and kindergarten through eighth grades. The final vote was 9-5 on each set of standards.



Texas Board Of Ed Approves Right-Wing History Textbook Standards (VIDEO)
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/texas_history_textbooks_final_vote.php

[DebbieCDC]

1. If I had kids and found out their school was using "Texas" textbooks

I'd pull them out and either put them in a private school or home-school them. Because these books are going to end up all over the country, the next 10 years worth of schoolkids will be dumbed down even further.

[Sisaruus]

2. Other states now need to refuse to buy textbooks acceptable in Texas

NBC just said Texas buys 5 million textbooks so the publishers will redesign to meet their demands. But how many textbooks does California and New York buy? And what about the aggregate sales in other rational states? Why should we lower our standards. And how can we get copies of A People's History of the Unites States to places that young people in Texas might congregate (summer camps, YMCAs, libraries)?

[charlesg]

4. Why are other states so dependent on Texas? Can't they edit the files themselves?

This is electronic publishing, and the files are surely editable.

[charlesg]

3. So that future generations will revere Jefferson Davis as much as Abe Lincoln

and regard the Bible as our true constitution.

[Raineyb]

5. Not more conservative. Revisionist. Let's be honest about what these

fuckwits are trying to do.