May 21, 2010

Don't Move to Texas

The current big news is Texas's new Board of Education statewide curriculum.
It is utter [insert derogatory word of choice].

First off; the things added:
  • Republican resurgency
  • National Rifle Association
  • Required to include that the Founding Fathers possibly didn't really mean that the church and state should be seperated.

Next; the vocabulary replaced:

  • Imperialism to expansionism
  • Capitolism to free trade system
  • Slave trade to atlantic triangular trade

Last; a paraphrase of a quote from the Nightly News: the Board wasn't "trying to make it conservative, they were trying to move it toward the middle".

This is especially disturbing since I just finished reading the book Lies My Teacher Told Me.

Links to other reports:

Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change

Progressive Texas Board of Education Candidates Promise to Undo Textbook Changes

Jefferson v Board of Education

Brief History: The Textbook Wars



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