Texas Social Studies Curriculum Change

[Censored by Laurie]

Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change

Two major things stood out to me:

1. The Texas Board of Education is not comprised of educators.

2. This is an open and stated effort to push a political agenda through education. The word "indoctrination" has been tossed of late, but this is a concerted effort to inject ideology into curriculum with the intent of shaping opinion or perception of fact. That is damn near the definition of indoctrination verbatim.

[Mean Green 93-98]

This is an open and stated effort to push a political agenda through education. The word "indoctrination" has been tossed of late, but this is a concerted effort to inject ideology into curriculum with the intent of shaping opinion or perception of fact. That is damn near the definition of indoctrination verbatim.

Haven't public schools been pushing the opposite political agenda, and indoctrinating students with secular humanism, since John Dewey? This change won't come close to countering that.

[UNT90]

Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change

Two major things stood out to me:

1. The Texas Board of Education is not comprised of educators.

2. This is an open and stated effort to push a political agenda through education. The word "indoctrination" has been tossed of late, but this is a concerted effort to inject ideology into curriculum with the intent of shaping opinion or perception of fact. That is damn near the definition of indoctrination verbatim.

Yep, now the scale is about 90% liberal, 10% conservative, with all higher education having a marked left wing slant.

To bad we just cant teach things that are true. But I guess now-a-days truth depends on your party affiliation.

[HoustonEagle]

Yep, now the scale is about 90% liberal, 10% conservative, with all higher education having a marked left wing slant.

To bad we just cant teach things that are true. But I guess now-a-days truth depends on your party affiliation.

can you give me some examples of what we are teaching that is not true? You have my interest.

[UNTflyer]

[UNTflyer]

can you give me some examples of what we are teaching that is not true? You have my interest.

Lincoln freed the slaves

FDR ended the Depression

Columbus discovered America

George Washington was the first President of the United States

Just to name a few...

[aztecskin]

Unfortunately (or fortunately) it matters not what is taught. I find that a crapload of people don't know some basic stuff. And they were taught here in the six-flag state. Even then, even if the history books have been left-leaning for a while, you couldn't tell by the things some Texans say.

People have to want to know to learn something. Most don't. They are content to be sheeple.

[Green P1]

Lincoln freed the slaves

FDR ended the Depression

Columbus discovered America

George Washington was the first President of the United States

Just to name a few...

I like you, but you're crazy.

[KingDL1]

Lincoln freed the slaves

FDR ended the Depression

Columbus discovered America

George Washington was the first President of the United States

Just to name a few...

Flyer please don't confuse people they don't like the truth.

I have won more $20 bets on the details of the Emancipation Proclamation, people willing to bet thousands that it stopped all slavery in the USA, then the south, then they just shut up. PDA phones make it much easier to collect.

[Censored by Laurie]

George Washington was the first President of the United States

TastyGreek?

[Censored by Laurie]

Lincoln freed the slaves

FDR ended the Depression

Columbus discovered America

George Washington was the first President of the United States

Just to name a few...

Oh and in fairness...

Reagan ended the Cold War.

[Green P1]

Oh and in fairness...

Reagan ended the Cold War.

OH SNAP! OH SNAP!

[UNTflyer]

Oh and in fairness...

Reagan ended the Cold War.

Not taught in schools, but even Fred Kaplan grudgingly admits this historic fact:

http://www.slate.com/id/2102081/

[meangreendork]

Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change

Two major things stood out to me:

1. The Texas Board of Education is not comprised of educators.

2. This is an open and stated effort to push a political agenda through education. The word "indoctrination" has been tossed of late, but this is a concerted effort to inject ideology into curriculum with the intent of shaping opinion or perception of fact. That is damn near the definition of indoctrination verbatim.

I'm not so much concerned with the outcome...I just want to know why actual educators from K-college, historians, and the like weren't on the board for this discussion. It's like trying to make a decision about the military with a bunch of number crunchers and pencil jockeys.

Oh wait, politics as usual.

[HoustonEagle]

Lincoln freed the slaves

FDR ended the Depression

Columbus discovered America

George Washington was the first President of the United States

Just to name a few...

Which textbooks can I find these examples? I would love to read how they are worded as each of these items are convoluted and should be approached differently at different age levels. Should a first grader be taught George Washington was the first President or that Lincoln Freed the slaves. Yes I think so. They are over simplifications but you must package things according to age. A High School textbook on the other hand should delve into these subjects with great detail and when I was in school they did just that. You sound like you have some first-hand knowledge of this matter. What are the textbooks I should read for these examples? I find this very interesting.

[Coffee and TV]

I like you, but you're crazy.

Ask him how his GM stock is doing that he bought around this time last year. The stuff he told everyone to buy before it hit bankruptcy.

[FirefightnRick]

Tom Hanks could qualify for the TEA Board.

Tom Hanks: America Wants to ‘Annihilate’ Terrorists Because ‘They’re Different’ Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/john-nolte/2010/03/09/tom-hanks-america-wants-annihilate-terrorists-because-they-re-different#ixzz0iPA9T9xz

[Hanks] doesn’t see the series as simply eye-opening history. He hopes it offers Americans a chance to ponder the sacrifices of our current soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. “From the outset, we wanted to make people wonder how our troops can re-enter society in the first place,” Hanks says. “How could they just pick up their lives and get on with the rest of us? Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what’s going on today?”

There’s no such thing as a definitive history. But what was once a passing interest for Hanks has become an obsession. He’s a man on a mission to make our back pages come alive, to keep overhauling the history we know and, in the process, get us to understand not just the past but the choices we make today.

No matter how many times you read this passage the context is clear. By “different” Hanks is clearly referring to race, culture and religion, not ideology.

Really, we wanted to annihilate the Japanese because they were different, because we saw them as “yellow, slant-eyed dogs that believed in different gods?” I thought it was due to the fact that “we viewed them” as barbaric imperialists who had attacked us first and wanted to enslave the world.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/john-nolte/2010/03/09/tom-hanks-america-wants-annihilate-terrorists-because-they-re-different#ixzz0iPASj3s6

Rick

[TheTastyGreek]

Tom Hanks could qualify for the TEA Board.

He married a Greek woman, so he's obviously got good judgment in at least some situations.