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hschulein

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Thu Sep 18, 2014, 09:06 AM Sep 2014

Mike Malloy - Religious Extremism In Texas School Board Of Education



The long-running ideological dispute over what gets taught in Texas classrooms flared anew over proposed history textbooks Tuesday, with academics decrying lessons they said exaggerate the importance of Christian values on the nation's Founding Fathers while conservatives complained of anti-American, pro-Islam biases.

The Board of Education will approve new history textbooks for the state's 5-plus million public school students in November. But it heard hours of complaints about 104 proposed books during a sometimes heated public hearing.

Full story: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rewriting-history-texas-tackles-textbook-debate/
Other Link: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/09/10/history-books-becoming-next-fight-in-texas-schools/

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Mike Malloy - Religious Extremism In Texas School Board Of Education (Original Post) hschulein Sep 2014 OP
A University looking at the application for students seeking degrees in medicine, science and DhhD Sep 2014 #1

DhhD

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1. A University looking at the application for students seeking degrees in medicine, science and
Thu Sep 18, 2014, 12:02 PM
Sep 2014

teaching need to take a much closer look at the State Board Curriculum pronouncement in each and every High School or GED program. Looking at a State Education Agency's approved curriculum for any given school district would be easy. In Texas each school/school district must have the State approved, written Curriculum Guide Booklet, full of educational objectives, available to the public upon request.

The Bible was written beginning 6000 years ago. Education was mostly memorizing the Bible/or its versions, by boys only; which is still the GOP and Religious Right's Mission.

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