Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond. […]
Recent Blogs
David Barton Gives Platform to Notorious Anti-Muslim Hysteric Who Hosted White Nationalist
Phony historian and religious-right pooh-bah David Barton and his sidekick Rick Green (who is seeking a seat on the Texas Supreme Court) hosted one of the country’s most notorious anti-Muslim hysterics on their radio program this week. The WallBuilders Live! program Monday and Tuesday featured a discussion with Frank Gaffney, a man the Southern Poverty Law Center compares to the […]
Progress in Texas Textbook Battle: Publishers Agree to Key Changes
As the State Board of Education prepares this week to vote on which new social studies textbooks to approve for Texas public schools, we are encouraged that publishers are making a number of changes to problematic passages in their texts. In each of these instances, publishers are responding to serious concerns by scholars working with […]
The Week in Quotes (Jan. 3 – 9)
Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond. […]
2016 Elections: Eight Texas SBOE Seats on the Ballot this November
You already know it’s a presidential election year. It’s also an election year for the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), with eight of the board’s 15 seats on ballots all across the state this November. SBOE races don’t always get much attention, which is unfortunate because if you’ve followed us here you probably know […]
