Texas Cooks the Textbooks (Scream it loud)

[babsbunny]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/238322

NEWSWEEK's guide to the 10 silliest changes that will likely be in the new Texas textbook curriculum.

Who says school is boring? The Texas State Board of Education will make a final vote today on a long list of controversial changes to its textbook standards. The 15-person board, dominated by 10 Republicans, is expected to approve many alterations that give a conservative slant to the study of U.S. history and economics. Fittingly, today's meeting opened with a prayer by board member Cynthia Dunbar, who "used the opportunity to lay out her views that the Bill of Rights and the constitutional founding of America were divinely inspired by her Lord Jesus Christ," according to the Texas Tribune.

[napi21]

1. Texas ill always do it's own thing. The advantage we have now

is the digital age. It used to be that because so many text book publishers were located in Tx, most of the other school districts in the US simply bought the same books as Tx published. In the digital age, it's so easy for a State, or even a fairy large school district can design their own.

I do feel bad for the students in Tx. though. So much of the proposed changes distort history and consequently underserve the students there.

[muntrv]

2. No mention of Jesus in the Bill of Rights or US Constitution.