- 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'
- Early Voting Begins in Texas: Vote in State Board of Education Races
- Texas Ed Board Candidate Advocates Teaching Creationism in Science Classrooms
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Religious Right Gushes over Texas Standards
No surprise, of course, that religious-right pressure groups and websites are engaged in an orgy of praise for the politicized curriculum standards the State Board of Education has approved for Texas public schools. And just as predictable is their common, deliberately insulting line of argument: anyone who disagrees with them must be a radical leftist [...]
Posted in religious right, social studies
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Embracing Extremism in the Texas GOP
UPDATE: Now we find out that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is coming to the Texas GOP convention in June. See more at the end of this post. Don McLeroy lost his chairmanship of the State Board of Education last year because he was more interested in promoting his own narrow ideological views than facts and [...]
Posted in Don McLeroy, Republican Party of Texas
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Dallas Morning News Publishes TFN Op-Ed
The Dallas Morning News is running an op-ed from Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller about last week’s debacle at the State Board of Education and why Texas must change the way it decides what our children learn in their public schools. Money quote: Throughout the state board’s needlessly drawn-out and divisive debates over standards [...]
Posted in social studies
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Join the Texas Freedom Network This Week
Last week’s battle over social studies curriculum standards highlighted the need to change how Texas decides what nearly 5 million students will learn in their public schools. Texas Freedom Network staff members are regrouping for the next phase in our campaign to do just that — and we need your help. This is Membership Week [...]
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The Next Steps
Here’s an alert the Texas Freedom Network just sent to supporters: Thanks for joining us for the live-blogging over the last three days. So we’ll sign off with TFN President Kathy Miller’s e-mail this evening to TFN supporters: Moments ago the State Board of Education cast the final vote on new social studies standards, ending [...]
Posted in social studies
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Live Blogging the Final Social Studies Vote
9:43 – The Texas State Board of Education is set today to take a final vote on proposed new social studies curriculum standards for public schools. The board first has to finish its debate over proposed amendments to the standards. We expect that debate will resume later this morning. We expect one of the key [...]
Posted in live blog, social studies
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America vs. the World?
Yesterday’s debate over social studies curriculum standards at the Texas State Board of Education mostly illuminated political biases of board members more than it did good education policies. Many conservative board members opposed, for example, restoring civil rights and labor leader Dolores Huerta to third-grade standards because they say she’s a socialist and isn’t an [...]
Posted in Don McLeroy, social studies
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Blogging the Social Studies Debate III
9:14 – The board is back and continuing with eighth-grade American history. 9:24 – The board has just voted preliminary approval for the K-8 standards. The board will take a final vote on those standards tomorrow. Board members will now take up the high school standards. 9:27 – Don McLeroy is offering amendments to the [...]
Posted in live blog, social studies
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