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You are here: Home / Google+ Posts / Texas Board of Education Rejects Proposal Allowing Experts to Fact-Check Textbooks

Texas Board of Education Rejects Proposal Allowing Experts to Fact-Check Textbooks

November 19, 2015 by Paul Spoerry 7 Comments



Texas Rejects Letting Academics Vet Public School Textbooks – ABC News

Texas Board of Education has always been sort of a joke. There was the time when it was led by Creationist Don McLeroy, who did all he could to dismantle the teaching of proper science in the classroom. There was the time after he left when the Board approved textbooks suggesting Moses influenced the writing of the Constitution. There was the time the Board was led by evolution-doubter Barbara Cargill. And we’re currently at a time when the Board is led by Liberty University graduate Donna Bahorich, who thinks so highly of public schools that she home-schooled her own kids before enrolling them in a private school.

But now…. The Board just rejected a proposal that would allow experts to fact-check textbooks before they’re approved for use in the state’s public schools. Rather than allowing academics to intervene, the board voted unanimously to tweak its current system, mandating that review panels be made up of "at least a majority" of people with "sufficient content expertise and experience" as determined by the Texas education commissioner.

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I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

I have a utility belt full of programming languages and a database of all my knowledge on databases... I practice code fu. Oh, I've also done actual Kung Fu, and have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

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I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

Comments

  1. HaZ NecaZ says

    November 19, 2015 at 12:21 pm

    salut Paul fac parte din comunitatea ta facebook si in ultimul timp am vazut multe postari porno ,ce-ia ce nu cred ca isi are rostul in comunitatea ta ,eu sunt moderator si la alte comunitati tot mari de 100000 mebri ,poti verifica profilul meu ,si daca iti place ceia ce vezi in profilul meu ,astept invitatia de la tine pentru o mai buna moderare in comunitatea ta facebook ,o seara buna

  2. West Kagle says

    November 22, 2015 at 6:18 am

    That's because we wouldn't want to disrupt the revisionist brainwashing narrative that the progressives in charge of the education system have been crafting for decades now………would we? ¬_¬

  3. Paul Spoerry says

    November 23, 2015 at 9:27 am

    You mean the fact based one? Or the one where they try to sneak in creationist stuf… er… yeah that's the conservavies that don't like them there facts being in their learning books.

  4. West Kagle says

    November 23, 2015 at 11:45 am

    +Paul Spoerry
    I'm really more thinking about the history books (being a lover of historical tomes), rather than the science ones. A book that talks about the creation of the universe in 6 days is called a Bible, and one that discusses the fact that the universe began some 13.8 Billion years ago is a science text book.
    ……at least as far as I'm concerned. 🙂

  5. Paul Spoerry says

    November 23, 2015 at 1:36 pm

    Right but these conservative wackos tried to put the bible parts in the science parts +West Kagle. ;O)

  6. West Kagle says

    November 23, 2015 at 3:00 pm

    +Paul Spoerry
    Yeah, that's what I'm on about. Keep the Bible out of my science textbook.

  7. Ron Clayton says

    November 26, 2015 at 12:01 pm

    Keep the Bible out of public education totally unless it is a religion class that fairly teaches about all religions. I know a Christian theological ethics professor who taught separation of church and state in his ethics courses.

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