SBOE rejects proposal to fact check textbooks
The Texas State Board of Education on Wednesday narrowly voted down a proposal to have university professors fact check state-approved textbooks, an extra level of vetting some thought necessary after...
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Texas has rejected allowing university experts to fact-check its public-school textbooks in the wake of a 9th grade world geography book mistakenly calling African slaves "workers." The...
View ArticleTexas rejects letting academics vet public school textbooks
Click photo to enlarge Texas Board of Education Vice Chairman Thomas Ratliff, center, speaks during a meeting, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, in Austin, Texas. Texas could allow university professors to...
View ArticleTexas narrowly rejects allowing academics to fact-check public school textbooks
Texas' education officials rejected allowing university experts fact-check textbooks approved for the state's 5.2 million public-school students. ......
View ArticleTexas textbook vote highlights disputes over US history – and how to teach it
Texas education officials nixed a proposal to let university experts check state textbooks for factual errors – reviving a long-simmering dispute over ideological bias in how history and science are...
View ArticleWe don't need academics to fact-check our textbooks
The latest controversy of Texas textbooks involved African slaves being described as 'workers.' Texas education officials rejected a proposal that would require university academics to fact-check the...
View ArticleTexas: We don't need academics to fact-check our textbooks
The Texas Board of Education rejected a measure Wednesday that would require university experts to fact-check the state’s textbooks in public schools. The board rejected the measure 8-7, reaffirming...
View ArticleTexas rejects plan to let academics fact-check textbooks
The Texas Board of Education rejected measure that would've had college professors ok its textbooks, despite claims they're ideologically slanted. The Texas Board of Education voted 8-7 to reject a...
View ArticleTexas rejects allowing academics to fact-check public school textbooks
Texas' education officials rejected allowing university experts fact-check textbooks approved for the state's 5.2 million public-school students. ......
View Article>Texas board approves textbook review rule changes
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Board of Education approved tighter rules on Friday dictating who can serve on volunteer panels that scrutinize textbooks, a move that could soften longstanding and often...
View ArticleTexas Board of Ed sees its textbook influence wane
AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas public schools had little say in 1995 when the state demanded that publishers make sweeping changes to health textbooks to de-emphasize contraception, or six years later when it...
View ArticleClimate change science provokes textbook battle in Texas
Climate fight taken to Texan classrooms Photo: NASA Several textbook publishers have withdrawn passages from social studies textbooks that could have led middle school students to think that climate...
View ArticleClimate science provokes textbook battle in Texas
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...
View Article>News Guide: Texas' latest history textbook tussle
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Board of Education is poised to vote Tuesday on more than 100 proposed social studies, history, geography and government textbooks that publishers have submitted for...
View ArticleNews Guide: Texas' latest history textbook tussle
The Texas Board of Education is poised to vote Tuesday on more than 100 proposed social studies, history, geography and government textbooks that publishers have submitted for approval and use in...
View ArticleUPDATE 1-Texas school board approves textbooks criticized for religious bent
(Updates with vote) By Jon Herskovitz and Jim Forsyth AUSTIN, Texas Nov 21 (Reuters) - The Texas State Board of Education, whose decisions can have national ramifications, on Friday approved nearly 100...
View ArticleA guide to Texas' latest textbook tussle
The Texas Board of Education is poised to vote today on more than 100 proposed social studies, history, geography and government textbooks that publishers have submitted for approval for use in...
View ArticleTexas's Latest History Textbook Tussle
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The Texas Board of Education is poised to vote Tuesday on more than 100 proposed social studies, history, geography and government textbooks that publishers have submitted for...
View ArticleEvolution debate and textbooks engulfs Texas Board of Education
Published November 23, 2013Associated Press Nov. 21: Texas Board of Education is casting critical votes on new science textbooks for use statewide.AP AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Board of Education used a...
View ArticleEvolution lessons in Texas biology textbook will stay, board says
DALLAS (Reuters) - A panel of experts has rejected concerns by religious conservatives in Texas that a high school biology textbook contained factual errors about evolution and a state board approved...
View ArticleTexas board OKs textbook review rule changes
AUSTIN — The Texas Board of Education imposed tighter rules Friday on the citizen review panels that scrutinize proposed textbooks, potentially softening fights over evolution, religion’s role in U.S....
View ArticleTexas board approves textbook review rule changes
AUSTIN, TEXAS: The Texas Board of Education imposed tighter rules Friday on the citizen review panels that scrutinize proposed textbooks, potentially softening fights over evolution, religion’s role in...
View ArticleReuters: Evolution lessons in Texas biology textbook will stay, board says...
(Source: The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life) DALLAS(Reuters) - A panel of experts has rejected concerns by religious conservatives in Texas that a high school biology textbook contained...
View ArticleTexas may let academics check textbooks for factual errors
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas could allow university professors to fact-check textbooks approved for statewide use, after a ninth-grade world geography book referred to African slaves as "workers." The...
View ArticleTexas board may vote to let academics check school textbooks
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas may vote this week on having outside experts check textbooks used in its public school classrooms for...
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