Scholars: Proposed Texas Textbooks Distort History, Religion

[JakeStarkey]

I find it amusing that leftists are complaining about conservative bias in education considering how badly leftism has infested academia from kindergarten to college.

Correcting the right wing bias in high schools.

Problem solved.

Shove the leftist bullshit imposed in the state schools back up your ass. Problem halfway solved. Universal school choice. Lefty lies can't compete. Problem solved.

Part of your natural order of the universe with St. Joseph the Mac? Step off, sonny.

 

[JakeStarkey]

You mean they continued to spout leftwing lies and propaganda.

In other words, yes, Joe McCarthy was a great danger to the American Republic, and for the likes of you, he would have had you arrested, interrogated, and returned to Fargo.

Nope. McCarthy exposed the people who were a danger to the America Republic. They were all commies like you. That's why all commies hate McCarthy.

Sigh. Along with bfgrn, you are the closest thing we have to a commie on the Board. The fact you defend McCarthy, who would have had folks like you put away if he could, merely reveals the depth of your personal pathology. You loathe yourself.

 

[M.D. Rawlings]

This is not a Bible.

This is not education.

This is child abuse.

 

[Avatar4321]

teaching the truth. What a novel concept. Of course lakhota opposes that

 

[Lakhota]

teaching the truth. What a novel concept. Of course lakhota opposes that

Lakhota loves the truth - when it's supported by evidence and facts.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Das Kapital and Adam Smith are part of economic history as are the Frankfort and Austrian schools of economics.

You cultural McCarthyites of the far right are not going to win this struggle, not anywhere near.

 

[JakeStarkey]

teaching the truth. What a novel concept. Of course lakhota opposes that

The truth, Avatar, is that Benjamin was a theocratic centralist, not a libertarian prince good peace. Have you ever really read your book carefully and thoughtfully? For instance, Korihor in the end was probably tortured before execution. You need to think instead of being indoctrinated like M.D. and PC.

 

[M.D. Rawlings]

I find it amusing that leftists are complaining about conservative bias in education considering how badly leftism has infested academia from kindergarten to college.

Correcting the right wing bias in high schools.

Problem solved.

Shove the leftist bullshit imposed in the state schools back up your ass. Problem halfway solved. Universal school choice. Lefty lies can't compete. Problem solved.

Part of your natural order of the universe with St. Joseph the Mac? Step off, sonny.

. . . he incoherently prattled as he touted the imponderable reaches of oligarchic indoctrination.

 

[M.D. Rawlings]

teaching the truth. What a novel concept. Of course lakhota opposes that

Lakhota loves the truth - when it's supported by evidence and facts.

. . . he averred about his evidence and his facts imposed on others' children.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Waaahhhhhh The Lefties don't like American History... Waaaaaaaaaahhhh

Have you read the textbook? Are you certain it's historically accurate?

 

[NYcarbineer]

I wonder if the textbooks are accurate in teaching that Texas actually seceded twice in order to preserve the institution of slavery.

 

[M.D. Rawlings]

Das Kapital and Adam Smith are part of economic history as are the Frankfort and Austrian schools of economics.

You cultural McCarthyites of the far right are not going to win this struggle, not anywhere near.

LOL! The Frankfort School of Critical Theory, i.e., cultural Marxism/Marxist normative relativism, better known today as, multiculturalism or political correctness, is not a school of economics.

 

[JakeStarkey]

They are terms, some are schools of thought and some are actual schools.

As you well know.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Waaahhhhhh The Lefties don't like American History... Waaaaaaaaaahhhh

Have you read the textbook? Are you certain it's historically accurate?

The state lege voted to secede then was was the only state to submit it to the citizens for a referendum, which passed about 3 to 1. Bunch of ballot stuffings on both sides. During the war, the state troops and quasi-judicial community councils conducted a reign of terror against citizens northeast of Dallas and north and west of San Antonio.

 

[JakeStarkey]

I find it amusing that leftists are complaining about conservative bias in education considering how badly leftism has infested academia from kindergarten to college.

Correcting the right wing bias in high schools.

Problem solved.

Shove the leftist bullshit imposed in the state schools back up your ass. Problem halfway solved. Universal school choice. Lefty lies can't compete. Problem solved.

Part of your natural order of the universe with St. Joseph the Mac? Step off, sonny.

. . . he incoherently prattled as he touted the imponderable reaches of oligarchic indoctrination.

. . . . says the indoctrinated stooge of the far right right.

 

[bripat9643]

Das Kapital and Adam Smith are part of economic history as are the Frankfort and Austrian schools of economics.

You cultural McCarthyites of the far right are not going to win this struggle, not anywhere near.

Das Kapital and the Frankfort school may be part of history, but so is Mein Kampf the Nazi party. The ideas of both the later are false.

 

[AmericanFirst]

Another battle could be brewing over Texas textbooks, this time because scholars say the proposed lessons distort history.

New social studies books, on which the Texas State Board of Education is set to vote in November, promote pro-Christian religious and conservative political biases, according to a report released Wednesday from the nonprofit Texas Freedom Network Education Fund. History scholars argue in the report that a number of the books under consideration contain misleading information on topics like America’s founding and world religions.

The textbooks on American government, U.S. and world history, and religion in world history and geography were submitted by publishers including Pearson Education, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and McGraw-Hill Education. They were designed to fit Texas' curriculum standards for history, which some critics have charged contain their own conservative biases.

Ten scholars, including professors from Southern Methodist University and doctoral students from the University of Texas at Austin, were contracted by the Texas Freedom Network to review the textbooks. While the experts praised some of the books for navigating the state standards in a fair way, they criticized others for capitulating to political concerns and disregarding evidence.

"In all fairness, it's clear that the publishers struggled with these flawed standards and still managed to do a good job in some areas," said Kathy Miller, president of the TFN Education Fund, in a statement. "On the other hand, a number of textbook passages essentially reflect the ideological beliefs of politicians on the state board rather than sound scholarship and factual history."

Emile Lester, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington, took issue with much of the content he saw in the U.S. government textbooks. "The [State Board of Education] and these textbooks have collaborated to make students' knowledge of American history a casualty of the culture wars," he wrote in the report.

Lester specifically criticized a proposed Pearson textbook for "a treatment of affirmative action [that] verges on the offensive." He mentioned two cartoons (see below) in which space aliens discuss affirmative action. In a call with reporters on Wednesday, he said those cartoons "imply that recipients of affirmative action ... are un-American."

More: Texas Textbook Battle Heats Up With Claims Of Conservative Bias

Is this another Texas textbook massacre? Why do Texas Conservative keep trying to distort/rewrite history?

Texas Textbook MASSACRE: 'Ultraconservatives' Approve Radical Changes To State Education Curriculum

Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change - The New York Times

"The Revisionaries", or The Texas Textbook Massacre

The idiot left have spent years lying to students saying that Christianity had no part in the founding of America. Libtards are so stupid.

 

[AmericanFirst]

teaching the truth. What a novel concept. Of course lakhota opposes that

Lakhota loves the truth - when it's supported by evidence and facts.

Then you must really be a conservative and not a stupid libtard.

 

[M.D. Rawlings]

They are terms, some are schools of thought and some are actual schools.

As you well know.

More prevarication. The essence of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory is social deconstructionism.

 

[Lakhota]

Thankfully, the founders had the wisdom to create a "Godless" Constitution. Some Christians struggle with that fact.