Texas Kicks Out Liberal Bias From Textbooks

Townhall.com ^ | March 16, 2010 | Phylllis Schlafly

[stephenjohnbanker]

God bless Texas!!

[mlocher]

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

[Blue Turtle]

Thank you, Texas. This is truly inspiring...

[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.

[newfreep]

NEA website where they recommend Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”. God help America.........

http://www.nea.org/tools/17231.htm

[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.

[George from New England]

While in the short term this is good news. In the long run, the liberal states will just pass laws (thank you NEA) to force the publishers (regardless of cost) to create separate textbooks. This will of course create jobs won’t it? The libs will not let this stand and force workarounds to accomplish their goal. The destruction of future minds.

[grobdriver]

The tide is turning.

My thought exactly.
Perhaps in the decades that follow someone will ask "When was the moment that turned America away from liberalism?" and they will be able to point to this act where our young were once again taught respect and pride in our country, and those youngsters grew up to be adults who made the country work again, ran for public office and then one became President, a President in the model of Reagan, someone they once read about in their history books and wanted to emulate.
Hey, we can hope.

But for us, now, there are only years and years of darkness ahead while the corrupted youths of today wind their way through life as Takers, hopefully not sucking all of the life out of our country.

[stephenjohnbanker]

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

If you ever want to see a soiled community, look for a major university. It never fails!

[Kaslin]

The way I understand is, that most states use the Texas schoolbooks as standard

[MrB]

When the SHTF...

I hope I have enough gas to get to Texas...

[tiki]

Amen!

[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.

[MrB]

I'm betting they recommend Howard Zinn's "People's History" as well.

Zinn had this take on history: "Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way; should serve the progress of the human race; should serve justice in some way, then it requires that you make your selection on the basis of what you think will advance causes of humanity."

"I wanted my writing of history and my teaching of history to be a part of social struggle," said Zinn. "I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude toward history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching."

This is the predominate history text for our colleges.