A little more than a year after the conservative-led state board of education in Texas approved massive changes to its school textbooks to put slavery...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.07.2011
WASHINGTON -- Last year, the Texas State Board of Education became embroiled in national controversy when its efforts to adjust the state's social stu...
Chris Michael | Posted 05.25.2011
"Our children need to be taught how our number one Founding Father, George Washington, was called to action by Jesus and died defending the Alamo," said Republican board member Terri Leo.
AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 05.25.2011
HOUSTON — Two civil rights organizations are seeking a federal review of public school education in Texas, accusing state school administrators ...
James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011
How did we get into the situation in which we knew so little about a world where we had so much at stake? As I note in my new book, Arab Voices: What they Are Saying to Us and Why It Matters, it all begins with education -- or the lack of it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
Accidentally addressing a neo-Nazi hate group can happen to even the best of folks. But doing it twice? Republican primary voters on Tuesday picked ...
Asher Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
At a recent fundraiser and again during an interview with Talking Points , Phyllis Schlafly sent Democratic activists hurtling toward their moral indignation machines™.
AP | APRIL CASTRO | Posted 05.25.2011
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas State Board of Education adopted a social studies and history curriculum Friday that amends or waters down the teachin...
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011
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
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeremy Binckes | Posted 05.25.2011
Last month, the Texas Education Agency fundamentally changed how humanities subjects would be taught in schools. Thomas Jefferson was removed from ...
Andy McDonald | Posted 05.25.2011
The last thing you want to do in celebration of Confederate History Month is omit or overlook any critical information regarding life in the south during the Confederacy!
Ed Hooper | Posted 05.25.2011
Reading, science and math are important, but No Child Left Behind standards must include history and social studies standards. If it isn't improved, knowledgeable citizens who can pull a voting lever and know what they're doing are going to become extinct.
Chris Rodda | Posted 05.25.2011
A featured speaker at Glenn Beck's American Revival event was none other than the star of the "Texas Textbook Massacre," Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram | TRACI SHURLEY | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Bryan Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Spencer Green | Posted 05.25.2011
- Colorful introduction by McGruff, the History Dog - Great Depression now caused by Christopher Hitchens - More recipes for homemade pralines and g...
Barbara Pitkin | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeremy Binckes | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
The Texas State Board of Education has voted to radically alter textbook lessons for future generations, removing from curricula separation of church ...
Posted 05.25.2011
AUSTIN, Texas - A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, histo...
Richard Greener | Posted 05.25.2011
History is not the only academic discipline being eaten for lunch by Texas' lions. They are feasting on Sociology, Economics and who knows what's next? Can't wait until they get to Music and Art.
HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 01.23.2012