Texas State Board adopts new social studies curriculum
May 21, 2010
For the past few decades, university professors and textbook writers have been revising history. Students now know little about the founders of our country, their founding documents, or the reasons for their actions. In Texas, there are finally enough tradition-minded members on the state board of education to vote to adopt social studies standards that are not hostile to our country’s Judeo-Christian roots. Texas’s textbook standards are important to the rest of the states because Texas’s state school board chooses texts for the entire state–a huge market– and consequently, textbook companies publish books that align with Texas’s standards and with California’s–another state which makes statewide textbook adoptions.
Read the article from the Houston Chronicle.
For the past few decades, university professors and textbook writers have been revising history. Students now know little about the founders of our country, their founding documents, or the reasons for their actions. In Texas, there are finally enough tradition-minded members on the state board of education to vote to adopt social studies standards that are not hostile to our country’s Judeo-Christian roots. Texas’s textbook standards are important to the rest of the states because Texas’s state school board chooses texts for the entire state–a huge market– and consequently, textbook companies publish books that align with Texas’s standards and with California’s–another state which makes statewide textbook adoptions.
Read the article from the Houston Chronicle.