- Texas Ed Board Candidate Doubles Down on 'Pilgrims Were Communists' Claim
- More From Ed Board Candidate Spurlock: No Sex Ed, Kids 'Are Gonna Figure It Out on Their Own' Anyway
- Former Texas Ed Board Creationist Don McLeroy on Colbert Report Tonight
- Former Texas SBOE Member: Opposition to Teaching Creationism in Science Classrooms Is Like 'Pre-Holocaust Germany'
- Texas Ed Board Candidate Advocates Teaching Creationism in Science Classrooms
- Early Voting Begins in Texas: Vote in State Board of Education Races
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Not about Religion?
Creationists on the Texas State Board of Education have repeatedly insisted that their attempts to dumb down the science curriculum on evolution have nothing to do with promoting their religious beliefs. But often their own words and actions betray them. At the end of the Jan. 21 public hearing on the science standards, board members were [...]
Summer Seminars in Pseudoscience
During last week’s public hearing on proposed science standards, evolution deniers on the Texas State Board of Education insisted that they had no intention of promoting “intelligent design”/creationism in public schools. Stephen Meyer, co-founder of the anti-evolution Discovery Institute in Seattle, echoed the claims of the board’s anti-science faction. They just want kids to learn [...]
Audio from the SBOE Science Debate
Tony Whitson has captured and organized the Internet audio feed from last week’s Texas State Board of Education hearing and debate over proposed science curriculum standards. His work is a great resource for folks interested in listening to key parts of the hearing and debate. Check it out on his curricublog here.
Dunbar: Mistruths and the War on Science
It’s been interesting how easily evolution deniers rely on and even promote falsehoods to bolster their attacks on teaching sound science. While live-blogging the Texas State Board of Education public hearing on proposed public school science curriculum standards last week, we noted a good example of this. In case you missed it, we thought we’d [...]
Shining a Light on the Texas State Ed Board
Texas lawmakers continue to look for ways to rein in the State Board of Education. One way to do that is by making sure more Texans can witness the board’s extremists at work. That’s why we’re happy that today state Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, filed legislation requiring that the Texas Education Agency provide live video Web casts [...]
Texas SBOE Gives First OK to Science Standards
The Texas State Board of Education has voted to give preliminary approval to proposed new science standards as amended yesterday. The board will take a final vote on adoption of the standards in March. It appears that a number of board members did not want to challenge some of the amendments added to the standards yesterday [...]
Clean Up at the Texas SBOE
Today the focus at the Texas State Board of Education is a formal vote on proposed new public school science curriculum standards. During yesterday’s preliminary votes, a board majority refused to reinsert “strengths and weaknesses” — language used to attack evolution — in the proposed standards. Creationists succeeded, however, in inserting language that would have [...]
Live Blogging: Texas SBOE Science Debate
Texas State Board of Education members are beginning debate on new public school science curriculum standards. The board will likely take a preliminary vote (or votes) today on whether to amend the draft standards submitted by teacher writing teams and then post them for public comment. A formal vote on posting the standards comes on [...]
Today at the Texas SBOE
Keep an eye on TFN Insider today for updates on action at the State Board of Education regarding proposed new public school curriculum standards. Meanwhile, you have two other options for live-blogging: Steven Schafersman from Texas Citizens for Science and Josh Rosenau at Thoughts from Kansas.
What’s Next on Texas Science Standards?
We signed off our live-blogging before letting folks know what happens next with the Texas public school science standards. Now that the public hearings are over, the State Board of Education on Thursday will consider any changes to the proposed standards. Then board members may take a preliminary vote followed by a formal vote the [...]