For weeks we have been pushing the Texas Education Agency to release changes publishers are proposing in their responses to objections official reviewers have raised regarding their new science textbooks. It is simply unacceptable for the State Board of Education to adopt those new textbooks until Texans have a chance to see whether their children’s […]
Recent Blogs
TFN Will Be Live-Blogging, Tweeting the Texas SBOE's Science Textbook Hearing Today
“Any statements made were my own personal beliefs.” That’s how Karen Beathard, an official state textbook reviewer, defends telling publishers that the biology textbooks they submitted for adoption in Texas this year should include “creation science based on biblical principles.” Her statement encapsulates precisely the problem with the science textbook adoption process in Texas. Some […]
Cargill: 'I'm one of you'
Another first-hand report from the science review panel meeting last month in Austin has emerged, and it seems to corroborate some of the concerns about the flawed process expressed last week by biology panel participant Jimmy Gollihar. Specifically, it raises more questions about what State Board of Education Chairwoman Barbara Cargill, R-The Woodlands, was doing […]
Stand Up for Science on Tuesday
Here’s how, no matter where you are. […]
The Week in Quotes (Sept. 8 – 14)
Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond. […]
