Texas Board of Education

Re-Birth of a Nation?

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 04.25.2012

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The Birth of a Nation provides the key to explaining both the rise of the Tea Party and the totally irrational hatred that a substantial fraction of Americans holds for President Obama.

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The Verdict Is In For Texas Schools: Will Creationism Be Taught In Science Class?

AP | JIM VERTUNO | Posted 09.21.2011

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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas State Board of Education delivered a blow to social conservatives Friday, giving final approval to supplemental high s...

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Texas Schools To Revisit Evolution Debate Under New Leadership

AP | By JIM VERTUNO | Posted 09.19.2011

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AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas State Board of Education meets this week for the first time under its conservative new chairwoman appointed by Gov. Rick Pe...

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Separation of Church and State: PBS Airs Documentary of a Mother's Story

Chris Benson | Posted 07.11.2011

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At a time when it seemed few in Vashti McCollum's conservative Champaign, Illinois community dared to question the connection between patriotism and religion, McCollum hit the "pause button."

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Creationism In Texas: A Bit Of Good News Followed By A Ton Of Bad

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's frightening that these are the "experts" the Texas State Board of Education wants to review science materials. Their positions are well beyond non-science and have entered the realm of nonsense.

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Texas Curriculum Changes Prompt Civil Rights Groups To Seek Review Of Public Schools In Lone Star State

AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 05.25.2011

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HOUSTON — Two civil rights organizations are seeking a federal review of public school education in Texas, accusing state school administrators ...

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Four Days IN Education Nation

John Merrow | Posted 05.25.2011

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NBC says it's going to do Education Nation again next year. Let's hope so. There's certainly room for improvement.

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Texas Board Of Education Approves Resolution To Limit Islam References

AP | APRIL CASTRO | Posted 05.25.2011

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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas State Board of Education adopted a resolution Friday that seeks to curtail references to Islam in Texas textbooks, as soci...

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Why Johnny can't think critically

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011

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School is now back in session, and our children's minds are impressionable vessels. We trust their teachers to take precious care of them. But can we...

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Texas Board Of Education Tried To Keep Word 'Slave' Out Of 'Slave Trade'

AP | APRIL CASTRO | Posted 05.25.2011

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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas State Board of Education adopted a social studies and history curriculum Friday that amends or waters down the teachin...

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Evolution Revisited

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is with as much embarrassment as pundits are able to muster that I am forced to acknowledge that the Texas Board of Education may now consider itself vindicated by none other than school administrators

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Russia, Texas and Evolution

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011

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Russia is a country would not have seemed a natural ally for Texas. A recent report suggests that fundamentalists in Russia, however, like those in Texas, are concerned with what their children are being taught in schools.

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The Texas GOP Is A Grand Old Piece of Work

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

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Texas -- good barbecue, hot weather, and a brutal history of racial violence. We can add to that one of the most egregious public policy documents in recent memory.

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Don't Mess With Texas

Mike Malloy | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Texas board of education's newest proposed alteration in the curriculum is even more more sinister than the snow-job they tried to pull last year, as it is less obviously designed by the religious wackos.

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Glenn Beck: "Historian" for a Troubled America

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beck's shtick is a backhanded nod to the relevance of history as a discipline and to historians not only as educators, but also as the keepers of the nation's myths.

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Misremembering: The Failure to Teach History in America

Robert Mackey | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the US, the issue is becoming one of history being taught differently in Texas than in Maine, and interpreted differently in Virginia than in Ohio. And it is becoming a political tool for polarized pundits.

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How Texas' School Board Tried to Pretend Slavery Never Happened and Why Your Kid's School May Be Next

Bryan Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011

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By incorporating their own conservative values into guidelines for history classes, the Texas Board of Education may force the entire nation to adopt their right-wing re-write of history.

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Testing Companies, Corporate Lobbyists, and Texas Textbooks

Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

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When it comes to what content should be taught and the best approaches for teaching, we are in the middle of an all out culture war.

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Approved Textbook Changes from Texas School Board of Education

Spencer Green | Posted 05.25.2011

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- Colorful introduction by McGruff, the History Dog - Great Depression now caused by Christopher Hitchens - More recipes for homemade pralines and g...

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The New Texan Textbooks' Silver Lining

Barbara Pitkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amid all the furor over who or what makes it into the curriculum in Texas, we must not neglect the more pressing imperative to equip students with the analytical skills to evaluate and interpret evidence from the past.

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Texas Board Of Education To Vote On Controversial Curriculum Changes

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeremy Binckes | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Texas State Board of Education will decide on Friday whether to approve a host of controversial changes to the state's school curriculum. Board me...

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The Crazy Imaginings of the Texas Board of Education

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 05.25.2011

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Conservatives and Christian evangelicals have taken over the Texas Board of Education and they are right now in the process of rewriting the American history our children will learn.

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The Fight Against Reality's Bias in Education

Noah Baron | Posted 05.25.2011

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The TX school board recently decided to take the Fox News approach to education. It's part of a conservative effort to skew what our children are being taught in school by "playing the ref."

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Reading and Writing and 'Rithmetic

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Texas Board of Education has added to the study of evolution a requirement that delighted those who have long been troubled by the whole idea of evolution and who are, themselves, living proof that evolution does not occur in all humans.

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An Open Letter to the Texas Board of Education From a Survivor of Its Public School System

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011

As someone who received nearly my entire education -- grades 2-12 -- in the Texas public schools system, I must admit that I don't understand what all the fuss is about.

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