Don’t forget to sign on to Just Educate, a campaign to reform the Texas State Board of Education. (You can also sign on to the campaign’s Facebook page here.) And tell your friends and family who care about ensuring that Texas students get a quality public education. Why is this campaign so important? Last year the […]
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Talking Points
From today’s TFN News Clips: “Disagreeing about history is OK in a free society. Whether you think the greatest-ever American is Reagan, or Jesus, just keep it civil.” — Comment on a Twitter site devoted to lampooning the Texas State Board of Education. Stay informed with TFN News Clips, a daily digest of news about politics […]
Blame the Gays
Didn’t think the curriculum battle in Texas could get any loonier? Guess again. Now right-wingers have decided that the controversy over social studies standards in Texas is part of a big homosexual conspiracy to undermine the education of young people. That’s the gist of a new e-mail screed sent out by Donna Garner, the right-wing […]
Blacklisting Texas Textbooks
And so it begins. It was only a matter of time before concerned citizens in other states began launching efforts to stop their public schools from buying textbooks written by publishers to meet the increasingly politicized curriculum standards adopted by the State Board of Education in Texas. Jim Broadway, publisher of the State School News […]
It’s Time to Act: The ‘Just Educate’ Campaign
Have you had enough? Last week’s Texas State Board of Education meeting was yet another debacle for honest and sound education. Last year the board’s creationist faction worked to water down instruction on evolution in science classrooms. The year before that they tried (but failed) to force politically approved reading lists into language arts and literature classrooms. Now the […]
