Let's hear it for Texas! Making our kids dumber from 1000 miles away

[Anonymous]

As reported by the Austin Chronicle (http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2014-11-21/despite-flawed-process-sboe-votes-for-social-studies-textbooks/), on Friday a majority of the Texas State Board of Education voted along party lines 10-5 to approve contentious social studies textbooks that have been criticized by experts for containing numerous factual and ideologically-driven errors.

According to the article, "publishers have come around to many of the problems raised by a coalition of scholars in September, including removing a cartoon mocking affirmative action recipients, strengthening emphasis on slavery’s role as the central impetus for the Civil War, striking negative stereotypes of Muslims, and revising climate change denialism. However, factual inaccuracies and exaggerations of Moses’ impact on the founding of the U.S. persist."

The approved books will be used in Texas classrooms and many others around the country for a decade starting in 2015.

[Anonymous]

Here's another article about this:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/11/texas_board_of_education_hearings_moses_and_states_rights_in_social_studies.html

One of the good things about the Common Core is that it reduces the power of Texas to get loony things into textbooks that people not in Texas use. On the other hand, the Common Core only has standards for math and English, not social studies or science...

[Anonymous]

One of the good things about the Common Core is that it reduces the power of Texas to get loony things into textbooks that people not in Texas use. On the other hand, the Common Core only has standards for math and English, not social studies or science...

plenty of loony things in CC history books...........

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

One of the good things about the Common Core is that it reduces the power of Texas to get loony things into textbooks that people not in Texas use. On the other hand, the Common Core only has standards for math and English, not social studies or science...

plenty of loony things in CC history books...........

No, actually there are no loony things in CC history books, because CC only covers English and Math. But thank you for contributing!

[Anonymous]

Publishers are slapping cc labels on educational materials left and right. There was a piece on npr on how lots of texts books that claim to be coom core aligned are not aligned at all or barely cover standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's another article about this:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/11/texas_board_of_education_hearings_moses_and_states_rights_in_social_studies.html

One of the good things about the Common Core is that it reduces the power of Texas to get loony things into textbooks that people not in Texas use. On the other hand, the Common Core only has standards for math and English, not social studies or science...

It's strives to be controversial and is too much like people magazine, it's hard to take anything published there seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's another article about this:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/11/texas_board_of_education_hearings_moses_and_states_rights_in_social_studies.html

One of the good things about the Common Core is that it reduces the power of Texas to get loony things into textbooks that people not in Texas use. On the other hand, the Common Core only has standards for math and English, not social studies or science...

It's strives to be controversial and is too much like people magazine, it's hard to take anything published there seriously.

I've never read any original reporting in People magazine about the Texas State Board of Education's public hearings on new social studies textbooks, but I haven't read People magazine in years; maybe it's changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's another article about this:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/11/texas_board_of_education_hearings_moses_and_states_rights_in_social_studies.html

One of the good things about the Common Core is that it reduces the power of Texas to get loony things into textbooks that people not in Texas use. On the other hand, the Common Core only has standards for math and English, not social studies or science...

It's strives to be controversial and is too much like people magazine, it's hard to take anything published there seriously.

I've never read any original reporting in People magazine about the Texas State Board of Education's public hearings on new social studies textbooks, but I haven't read People magazine in years; maybe it's changed.

You won't read any original reporting on the Slate site either, just biased "reporting".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You won't read any original reporting on the Slate site either, just biased "reporting".

It's especially easy to make this assertion when you haven't read the article. Here's a link to the article:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/11/texas_board_of_education_hearings_moses_and_states_rights_in_social_studies.html

Would you care to explain why this is biased "reporting", or do you just want to assume that if it appears in Slate, it must be wrong?