Posted on 03/15/2010 5:16:02 PM PDT by Santa Fe_Conservative
Thats the way to do it :p throw a temper tantrum when you don’t get your way!
I also find amusing how many complained about including country/western as an important cultural movement, but not hip-hop... Last I checked, hip-hop/rap is pretty recent and not exactly history...
Great Society programs such as Title IX—which provides for equal gender access to educational resources—and affirmative action, intended to remedy historic workplace discrimination against African-Americans, are said to have created adverse “unintended consequences” in the curriculum’s preferred language.
ANY teaching about government programs should include information about “unintended consequences”.
Way to go, Texas!
Textbook publishing is big money for the publishers. If they can get everyone (via lobby) to go for the same standards, it’s less work for them with the same amount coming in = more profit for less work.
This is why they want there to be national standards. I think that IS a bad thing. The federal government does not belong in education. The money needs to be local so that it can go where it needs to go without strings attached. That said, if all the individual states want to adopt Texas standards, more power to them.
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