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Back To School In Texas: Scrutiny Of Rick Perry's Education Record Shows Mixed Results

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.09.2012

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry's k-12 education record has become the Obama administration's newest piñata -- but the administration's attacks mostly paint Pe...

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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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Con Games: Glenn Beck's History Lesson

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Conniff

Perhaps the single most disturbing development in the wan Pequot energizing the Tea Party movement is the emergence of Glenn Beck University. That's ...

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Rev. Jesse Jackson Discusses the Current Political Landscape (Part 1)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kathleen Wells, J.D.

The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America's foremost civil rights, religious and p...

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The Census: Reality-Based Community v. Party of Palin

Nancy L. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nancy L. Cohen

Would you like to strike a blow, nonviolently of course, at the Party of Palin, the Tea Party, and Thomas Jefferson deniers? Then send in your Census Form on April 1. It's the most important political action you can take this year.

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Texas Curriculum Changes Front And Center In Governor's Race

Fort Worth Star-Telegram | TRACI SHURLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White on Tuesday said he wants Gov. Rick Perry to ask State Board of Education Chairwoman Gail Lowe to send th...

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Approved Textbook Changes from Texas School Board of Education

Spencer Green | Posted 05.25.2011

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Spencer Green

- 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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Highlights of the New Texas School Curriculum

Rob Kutner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rob Kutner

The Founding Fathers Fled England to Avoid Government-Run Health Care: Sure, England didn't adopt socialized medicine until the 20th century. But as everyone knows, the FFs were nothing if not prescient.

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Out of Infamy: An Important Film at a Crucial Time

Joseph Smigelski | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph Smigelski

The 17-minute film, Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn, reveals a dark and shocking chapter of American history: the detention in concentration camps of over 110,000 people of Japanese descent during World War II.

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Texas Textbook MASSACRE: 'Ultraconservatives' Approve Radical Changes To State Education Curriculum

Posted 05.25.2011

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AUSTIN, Texas - A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, histo...

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Texas Conservatives Seek Deeper Stamp On Textbooks

nytimes.com | James C. McKinley Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Texas school board is holding hearings on changes to its social studies curriculum that would portray conservatives in a more positive light, emph...

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