One thing you can say about Texas State Board of Education member Terri Leo: she can say the most absurd things with a straight face. In an article published by a conservative Web site, East Texas Review, Leo claims “conservatives” (as she defines them, anyway) are improving education standards that will help students do better […]
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SBOE Forum in Austin This Saturday
Passing along some information about a very interesting forum on the State Board of Education coming up in Austin this Saturday, November 7: Panel on “Textbooks, TAKS, and the State Board of Education” Speakers include Mark Grayson, former textbook representative to the SBOE for Science for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, State Rep. Donna Howard (D-Austin), […]
TFN to Receive National Freedom Award
A major education group will present the Texas Freedom Network with its 2009 National Intellectual Freedom Award this month for our efforts to help teachers counter political attacks on sound curriculum standards in Texas public schools. We are very grateful and profoundly humbled by this honor from the 50,000-member National Council of Teachers of English. TFN […]
Unhinged
It appears that the Texas State Board of Education‘s social conservatives and their supporters have embarked on a new campaign of blanket smears against almost everyone involved in the revision of social studies curriculum standards. And the attacks increasingly sound almost like unhinged rants. This week state board member Ken Mercer, R-San Antonio, and Bill […]
Talking Points
From today’s TFN News Clips: “The noose has tightened around the necks of Christians to keep them from speaking out on certain moral issues. And it all was embodied in something called the Hate crimes bill that President Obama said was a major victory for America. I’m not sure if America was the beneficiary. … […]
