Stand up to the Texas Taliban!
Mar. 19th, 2010 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gozerIf you watch The Daily Show, you may have seen the segment John Stewart did the other night regarding the people in Texas get to (very arbitrarily) decide what does and does not go into our children's textbooks. This is from an email from Credo:
If you thought that decisions made by the Texas State Board of Education don't affect you, think again.
Led by far-right ideologues, the Texas SBOE recently gave preliminary approval to a plan that would radically change what children across the country learn in history class.
The ultra-conservative majority on the board (none of whom are experts in any academic discipline and many of whom are explicitly anti-science) took the curricula proposed by teachers and made more than 100 changes to "correct" the perceived left-wing bias.
But it gets worse. Since Texas is one of the largest textbook markets in the country, material written to carter to the Texas curricula will find its way into textbooks across the country unless textbook publishers take a stand.
We can't allow a small group of extreme ideologues on the Texas State Board of Education to re-write history. Click the link to tell textbook publishers to stand up to the Texas Taliban.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/textbooks/?r_by=8258-1371504-BRmouTx&rc=paste1
(I am also testing my cross-post-to-LJ capabilities for the first time!)
If you thought that decisions made by the Texas State Board of Education don't affect you, think again.
Led by far-right ideologues, the Texas SBOE recently gave preliminary approval to a plan that would radically change what children across the country learn in history class.
The ultra-conservative majority on the board (none of whom are experts in any academic discipline and many of whom are explicitly anti-science) took the curricula proposed by teachers and made more than 100 changes to "correct" the perceived left-wing bias.
But it gets worse. Since Texas is one of the largest textbook markets in the country, material written to carter to the Texas curricula will find its way into textbooks across the country unless textbook publishers take a stand.
We can't allow a small group of extreme ideologues on the Texas State Board of Education to re-write history. Click the link to tell textbook publishers to stand up to the Texas Taliban.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/textbooks/?r_by=8258-1371504-BRmouTx&rc=paste1
(I am also testing my cross-post-to-LJ capabilities for the first time!)
