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Bad standards: Not just in Texas
- 05-24-2010
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
Texas isn’t the only place with lousy social studies standards, though you might be forgiven for thinking so considering all the attention that the Texas Board of Education has received in recent months as it adopted a new set of standards. The majority of the members voted Friday on the new standards, which were originally written by a team of educators and then revised by a majority of the board who chose to insinuate their own religious and political views into the curriculum of nearly 5 million schoolchildren. The standards, among other things, now portray the United States as a country founded by men who were guided by religious principles and were not really keen on creating a secular state. Additionally, they promote the benefits of low taxes, little regulation and free enterprise. (more...)
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