Texas school board rejects push to enlist academics to check textbooks for factual errors

[TexasTowelie]

AUSTIN — State Board of Education members on Wednesday narrowly rejected a plan to create a group of state university professors to scour Texas schoolchildren’s textbooks for factual errors.

The vote against was 8-7, with all the board’s Republicans except two opposing the measure.

The push for more experts to be involved came after more than a year of controversy over board-sanctioned books’ coverage of global warming, descriptions of Islamic history and terrorism and handling of the Civil War and the importance of Moses and the Ten Commandments to the founding fathers.

A tipping point to add more fact checking may have come last month. A suburban Houston mom’s alert that a newly approved geography text described African slaves forcibly brought to North America as “workers” set off a national furor.

Read more: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/11/texas-school-board-rejects-push-to-enlist-academics-to-check-textbooks-for-factual-errors.html/

[liberal N proud]

1. Because the results would require a full rewrite of textbooks?

[LiberalArkie]

2. I guess the African slaves were just the fore runner of the H1B workers.

[muntrv]

3. Another reminder that facts have a liberal bias.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. When will the sane states in the Union

stop buying books that are OK'ed by Texas? Maybe if a few like NY and CA did so, it might make a statement.

[DhhD]

5. Other ways.

College and universities do provide teacher training and credit courses for teachers in the Summer Semesters. In the past, education courses included a setting in which secondary teachers met with collegian peers, to discuss the transition from high school to the Freshmen year of college.

TEA-Texas Education Agency, can provide AAT-Advanced Academic Training for a School District's curriculum objectives that are 40% Textbook and 60% the teacher's method of preparing the students for college. Secondary teaching is to prepare students for college and/or the workforce.

Since the teacher has a 60% say in what is taught, privatizers and religious fanatics have every reason to remove teachers that would teach something like, slaves were NOT workers in Texas and 30% of the population in 1865 Texas were slaves even though the Civil War had already ended. Perhaps the State Board would not like for students to find out from the same lesson that Peonage lasted until the 1930s, when it was completely dismantled by FDR.

Advanced Placement Social Studies classes have dual credit for graduation from high school and credit at the same time for Freshmen college credit hours. So collegians who counsel students and determine college Degree Plans have every right and moral right for students to be taught the truth and in the atmosphere of the Separation of Church and State and the Bill of Rights.

[Javaman]

6. brought to you by the republican council: morons for our future. nt