Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Watch This Video - A Battle Over Texas TextBooks

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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you watch this video, you won't believe what takes place. These are the politicians of the Texas school board debating on Texas textbooks and want is going to be taught to students from these books not only in Texas but across our country. What probably will be passed in the final vote in May will definitely impact what are children will learn which in some instances is total untruth, inserting the board"s views on subjects which they have no expertise in, and basically changing the history of our country. I cannot believe they want to take out all references to Thomas Jefferson. Just because Texas doesn't have to conform with federal guidelines in education doesn't mean they can impact the rest of the country"s education. It all boils down to Texas being such a huge state, whatever books they want and have published affects the rest of the country because of the publishers controlling where other states get their books. The only people who can correct this is the federal DOE with guidelines and intervention.