WASHINGTON Several textbook publishers have withdrawn passages from social studies textbooks that could have lead middle school students to think that climate change is not caused by human activity, an advocacy group said Monday. The move comes a day before elected Texas school officials vote on whether to approve the books. The decisions of the Texas State Board of Education could have national impact because the state is the second-largest textbook market behind California, so textbooks written for its market tend to end up in other parts of the country as well. Texas Freedom Network, a group that monitors, and at times...
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