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A small victory for reality-based education in Colorado Tuesday, yay!
Voters in the state’s second-largest school district recalled three conservative school board members who last year tried to require Advanced Placement U.S. History classes to teach students how to fall in love with America and American Exceptionalism.
http://wonkette.com/595654/colorado-voters-murder-founding-fathers-for-the-kids
Conservative School Board Members Who Pushed For ‘Patriotic’ History Get Booted
The way that schools teach history classes has become increasingly controversial over the past few years, as conservatives accuse schools of trying to paint an unflattering, if accurate, picture of the nation’s history.
Houston mother’s Facebook post about her son’s textbook’s inaccurate portrayal of slavery went viral last month and resulted in the textbook company, McGraw-Hill, rewriting the section and publishing new books as well as offering to send schools updated textbooks.
http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/11/04/3719103/school-board-ap-standards/
Conservatives attempt to persuade school children that slavery did not exist
In a section titled “Patterns of Immigration,” a speech bubble pointing to a U.S. map read: “The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.
"Minimizing slavery in any way is a way of saying those black lives, those black bodies, that black pain didn’t matter enough to give it a full description.”
-Roni Dean-Burren
As recently as last year, scholars reviewing textbooks based on the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills guidelines found a number of historical misrepresentations, among them several in McGraw-Hill’s proposed textbooks.
These inaccuracies will remain in the school books for ten years. The corrections are online.
The Conservative Republicans, the Tea Party and the Extremist Religious Right Republicans want to lead everyone to believe in their Imaginary Happy Place.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rate-biased-and-politicized-new-report-finds/
Texas textbook standards require that an obsession with the gold standard be taught as a legitimate economic theory instead of the mad ravings of cranks that it is. We live in an era where no amount of right-wing lunacy is considered too much to be pushed on innocent children like it’s fact. Anyone who doubts that should just remember one word: Dragons.
Louisiana’s notorious voucher school system has let some crazy nonsense fly in the classroom, including the claim that dragons used to roam the planet. A book being used in Louisiana classrooms titled Life Science and published by Bob Jones University Press claims that “scientists” found “dinosaur skulls” that the book suggests are actually dragons. “The large skull chambers could have contained special chemical-producing glands. When the animal forced the chemicals out of its mouth or nose, these substances may have combined and produced fire and smoke,” the book claims.
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/07/photos-evangelical-curricula-louisiana-tax-dollars
Voters in the state’s second-largest school district recalled three conservative school board members who last year tried to require Advanced Placement U.S. History classes to teach students how to fall in love with America and American Exceptionalism.
http://wonkette.com/595654/colorado-voters-murder-founding-fathers-for-the-kids
Conservative School Board Members Who Pushed For ‘Patriotic’ History Get Booted
The way that schools teach history classes has become increasingly controversial over the past few years, as conservatives accuse schools of trying to paint an unflattering, if accurate, picture of the nation’s history.
Houston mother’s Facebook post about her son’s textbook’s inaccurate portrayal of slavery went viral last month and resulted in the textbook company, McGraw-Hill, rewriting the section and publishing new books as well as offering to send schools updated textbooks.
http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/11/04/3719103/school-board-ap-standards/
Conservatives attempt to persuade school children that slavery did not exist
In a section titled “Patterns of Immigration,” a speech bubble pointing to a U.S. map read: “The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.
"Minimizing slavery in any way is a way of saying those black lives, those black bodies, that black pain didn’t matter enough to give it a full description.”
-Roni Dean-Burren
As recently as last year, scholars reviewing textbooks based on the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills guidelines found a number of historical misrepresentations, among them several in McGraw-Hill’s proposed textbooks.
These inaccuracies will remain in the school books for ten years. The corrections are online.
The Conservative Republicans, the Tea Party and the Extremist Religious Right Republicans want to lead everyone to believe in their Imaginary Happy Place.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rate-biased-and-politicized-new-report-finds/
Texas textbook standards require that an obsession with the gold standard be taught as a legitimate economic theory instead of the mad ravings of cranks that it is. We live in an era where no amount of right-wing lunacy is considered too much to be pushed on innocent children like it’s fact. Anyone who doubts that should just remember one word: Dragons.
Louisiana’s notorious voucher school system has let some crazy nonsense fly in the classroom, including the claim that dragons used to roam the planet. A book being used in Louisiana classrooms titled Life Science and published by Bob Jones University Press claims that “scientists” found “dinosaur skulls” that the book suggests are actually dragons. “The large skull chambers could have contained special chemical-producing glands. When the animal forced the chemicals out of its mouth or nose, these substances may have combined and produced fire and smoke,” the book claims.
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/07/photos-evangelical-curricula-louisiana-tax-dollars
