[xmca] udpate on History / Social Studies debacle in Texas

[Tony Whitson <twhitson@UDel.Edu>]

Shortly before the January meeting of the Texas State Board of Education, 
Mike posted a message on the effort to remove Thurgood Marshall and Cesar 
Chavez from the curriculum in Texas. I've been following this very 
closely, and I sent a response that these specific efforts would not 
succeed, but there is plenty of other alarming mischief coming down.

The SBOE met again last week on this, and it's gotten even more appalling. 
(I'm tempted to apologize to non-US list members; but the ramifications of 
US politics are global, unfortunately [ I give my own Social Studies 
students an editorial by a European arguing that the whole world's 
population should be able to vote in our elections: 1) because they all 
suffer the consequences, and 2) because they pay attention and know more 
about the issues than voters do in the US ].

Anyway, for those who are interested, you might want to look at

http://curricublog.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/wingnuts-cry-bias/

This is directed more at coverage of the travesty than the travesty 
itself, but it includes links with the information about what transpired 
last week in Texas.

Tony Whitson
UD School of Education
NEWARK  DE  19716

twhitson@udel.edu
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