[stephenjohnbanker]

God bless Texas!!

[mlocher]

The tide is turning. Slowly. But it’s a start.

[highlander_UW]

Texas is uniquely important in textbook content because the state of Texas is the largest single purchaser of textbooks. Publishers can hardly afford to print different versions for other states, so Texas curriculum standards have nationwide influence.

Here is my long term prediction. Eventually textbooks will be electronic and students will carry something like a tablet pc that is loaded with all their texts for the school period. Because there won't be printing and distribution costs it will be easier for publishers to customize books to fit the requests from each state.

The net result of that (over a period of decades) will be that the quality and accuracy of education that students receive will be controlled by which state they reside in. Students will have huge difficulties when families move out of state because of the divergence of educational quality. And ultimately, some of the continuity of American society will erode because we will have fewer educational experiences in common.

There can be advantages to this as well...it could put the control and power of curricula closer to the hands of the parents.

[tropical]

What great news! Good job, Texas!

[Le Chien Rouge]

I reside in Austin and the raging anger that the lefties have for the Texas textbook ruling is wonderful to enjoy.

I love the smell of self rage hippies burning in the morning!

[bvw]

Whoa, Adam Smith was a good guy!

Well, happy that Texas started the take back of education. But the current public school system is disgusting in every aspect.

[ravenwolf]

Way to Go, Texas.

[Eye of Unk]

I sure wish it could happen in Alaska, our schools are terribly infested with liberal propaganda.

[rockinqsranch]

This is good. All States should have elected B.O.E.’s.

[FateAmenableToChange]

History textbooks that deal with Joseph McCarthy will now be required to explain "how the later release of the Venona papers confirmed suspicions of Communist infiltration in U.S. government." The Venona papers are authentic transcripts of some 3,000 messages between the Soviet Union and its secret agents in the United States.

A good friend of mine was responsible for translating a portion of these and related intercept transcripts. The above statement is an understatement since the real transcripts show that McCarthy was radically underestimating the real commie infiltration.

[PORD]

Just the facts, warts and all!

[King_Corey]

For folks NOT in Texas this ran WALL TO WALL on hometown Conservative talk radio in Houston. Both AM700 and AM740 had this on for days. It was well publicized and that is a good thing here in Texas, because it scared away the Rats for a while. Just a minor victory and a THANK YOU to all the people that dug in and kept the books conservative. It will impact the rest of the country because Texas leads the way on textbooks and what we decide is what many states just go along with. (I can feel the Rats crying for years because of the textbooks have far less of the liberal slant than they wanted.)

[lormand]

Texas - What America used to be

[An American!]

Samuel Adams letter to James Warren
Date: November 4, 1775
“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any
be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is
preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally
ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under
their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.”

[American Quilter]

This is great news. No wonder Texans are so proud of their state. Are they taking any action, as I understand Virginia has, to opt out of Obamacare if it passes?

[jla]

Now this is a winning quiniela: Mrs Schlafly & Texas.

[Clemenza]

For years, liberals have imposed their revisionist history on our nation's public school students

LOL! I hope he realizes that the term "revisionist" was coined by Stalinists to describe those communists who didn't toe "the party line."

All historians are "revisionist," as the job of the historian is to provide new perspectives on historical facts based upon new or ignored documentation. I think what the writer is trying to say is that those on the left have been trying to push their own socialist interpretation of events on the children of Texas.

[Clemenza]

For years, liberals have imposed their revisionist history on our nation's public school students

LOL! I hope SHE realizes that the term "revisionist" was coined by Stalinists to describe those communists who didn't toe "the party line."

All historians are "revisionist," as the job of the historian is to provide new perspectives on historical facts based upon new or ignored documentation. I think what the writer is trying to say is that those on the left have been trying to push their own socialist interpretation of events on the children of Texas.

[Theodore R.]

The textbook companies can delay all of this to January. Then a liberal Republican named Ratliff will succeed the conservative Don McLeroy on the board, and the liberals can reverse the vote. The Democrats may also pick up a SBOE seat.

[Theodore R.]

Nathan Hale and John Paul Jones have long been eliminated from the history texts. Liberals “know best”, and they will still prevail somehow.