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[quote=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.[/quote]

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