Historians speak out against proposed Texas textbook changes

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/17/AR2010031700560.html


Historians on Tuesday criticized proposed revisions to the Texas social studies curriculum, saying that many of the changes are historically inaccurate and that they would affect textbooks and classrooms far beyond the state's borders.

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Because the Texas textbook market is so large, books assigned to the state's 4.7 million students often rocket to the top of the market, decreasing costs for other school districts and leading them to buy the same materials.

"The books that are altered to fit the standards become the bestselling books, and therefore within the next two years they'll end up in other classrooms," said Fritz Fischer, chairman of the National Council for History Education, a group devoted to history teaching at the pre-college level. "It's not a partisan issue, it's a good history issue."
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our historians are being too gentle. if history is their thing they should speak up loud and clear and protect it.

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1. But we all know that the founding fathers ONLY watched FOX to get their "news".

They listened to Rush, too. And Ronald Reagan was the first president.

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2. kicking historians in the butt before I go

nt

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3. kicking the butts of historians to act up, act out against the

religiously insane who are changing text book history.

don't historians who have studied history have the last word on history?