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Statesman NIE Program wrote 4 weeks ago: New York Times: States Compete for Federal School Dollars Race to the Top is a $4 billion competitio … more →

Tags: Current Event, Austin American Statesman, Chicago Food Fight, First Amendment, High School Journalism, Justice Kennedy, Kate Alexander, Pflugerville ISD, Race to the Top

Progress in the Texas Social Studies Curriculum Fight1 comment

mattusmaximus wrote 3 months ago: Not too long ago, I posted about how the Texas Board of Education, which is run by religious zealots … more →

Tags: Education, Politics, American Humanist Association, Board of Education, Christianity, constitution, Declaration of Independence, democracy, fundamentalist

Texas Board of Education Pushes Religious Ideology in Social Studies Classes3 comments

mattusmaximus wrote 4 months ago: I’ve made numerous posts here about the Texas Board of Education pushing a creationist agenda in reg … more →

Tags: Education, Politics, History, Wedge Document, textbooks, Texas, Texas Freedom Network, Board of Education, Religion

Texas Gov. Rick Perry Furthers the Creationist Agenda... Again3 comments

mattusmaximus wrote 4 months ago: I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop in the ongoing fiasco that is the Texas State Boa … more →

Tags: Creationism, Education, Politics, Science, Evolution, Biology, Scientific Creationism, intelligent design, id

Perry to Texas Education: "Drop dead, but not as fast as before"1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 5 months ago: Texas Gov. Rick Perry named Gail Lowe, R-Lampasas, to chair the State Board of Education. Texas sena … more →

Tags: Education, State school boards, Texas, Textbook Selection, textbooks, Politics, Education reform, Education quality, War on Education

SBOE Announcement!! Gov. Perry Appoints Conservative to SBOE Chair4 comments

jonathansaenz wrote 5 months ago: Update: Opposition is in full panic mode:  I don’t like to say “I told you so”, bu … more →

Tags: Update, Evolution, Texas SBOE, strengths and weaknesses, censorship, science curriculum, science teacher, Rick Perry, Free Market Foundation

Whitewashing History14 comments

The Local Crank wrote 5 months ago: White people on the Texas State Board of Education are concerned that non-white people are mentioned … more →

Tags: Education, History, racism, Cesar Chavez, David Barton, State Board of Education, Texas Freedom Network, Thurgood Marshall

More Creationist Crazy on the Horizon in Texas?2 comments

mattusmaximus wrote 5 months ago: The issue of government-sponsored creationism may be rearing its ugly head once again in Texas.  As … more →

Tags: Creationism, Education, Politics, Science, Evolution, Biology, Scientific Creationism, intelligent design, id

Texas social studies curriculum panel reports: The Great Texas History Smackdown4 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 5 months ago: Just when you thought it was safe to take a serious summer vacation, finish the latest Doris Kearns … more →

Tags: Civil Rights, State school boards, TEKS, Texas, Textbook Selection, textbooks, Voodoo history, Bogus history, Texas Freedom Network

Sylvia, you ignorant slut3 comments

scaryreasoner wrote 5 months ago: Via Bad Astronomy, indirectly, via The Lippard blog indirectly, via The mighty Pharyngula… (Je … more →

Tags: Religion, Separation of Church and State, Politics, Government, Texas, Education, Cynthia Dunbar

Don McLeroy--no longer head of the SBOE

airtightnoodle wrote 6 months ago: It’s a sad day in Texas. No, wait…I’m sure it’s a sad day somewhere, but not … more →

Tags: Education, Evolution, Politics, Religion, Science, Texas, Biology, Creationism, intelligent design

Don McLeroy Looses and Gets Viciously Attacked5 comments

Michael wrote 6 months ago: Senate rejects McLeroy by only a couple of votes, the majority was needed for his confirmation, but … more →

Tags: Controversies Over Teaching Science, Creationism, Evolution, intelligent design, PZ Meyers, Science

Senate votes against creationist for Texas School Board

mjr256 wrote 6 months ago: For weeks now there was concern that creatioinst Don McLeroy might be elected chairman of the State … more →

Tags: Education, intelligent design/creationism, Texas, Texas State Board of Education

Finally, a little victory1 comment

Michael Hawkins wrote 6 months ago: Creationist dentists Don McLeroy’s confirmation failed. He’s apparently still on the sch … more →

Tags: News, Creationism

Good News from Texas: McLeroy Gets the Boot!

mattusmaximus wrote 6 months ago: For the last few months, I have been following the fight against creationists in Texas on this blog. … more →

Tags: Creationism, Education, Politics, Science, Evolution, Biology, Scientific Creationism, intelligent design, id

Texas Senate rejects creationist's nomination4 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 6 months ago: A victory in a war that should not be. Texas Freedom Network carries the news (4:43 p.m. Central) th … more →

Tags: Evolution, Science, Education, State school boards, Texas, Textbook Selection, Politics, Texas Lege, Government

Insanity at Texas state school board - economics, geography and history

Ed Darrell wrote 6 months ago: Texas Freedom Network’s Insider blog reports that embattled chairman Don McLeroy is working to … more →

Tags: accuracy, Bogus history, Curricula, Economics, Education, Education assessment, Education quality, Geography - Economic, Geography - Physical

McLeroy nomination - still dead? 3 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 6 months ago: Molly Ivins’ untimely passing becomes acutely painful when the Texas Lege comes down to the la … more →

Tags: Creationism, Darwin, Education, Education quality, Education reform, Evolution, State school boards, Texas, Texas Citizens for Science

Texas Democrats Have Votes to Remove Creationist as Chair of State Board of Education4 comments

rikkitikkitavi wrote 6 months ago: Gary Scharrer, The Houston Chronicle, May 26, 2009 AUSTIN – Senate Democrats say they have more than … more →

Tags: News, toon, political cartoon, Republican, GOP, Political Cartoons, reactionaries, Hypocrisy, ignorance


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