Proposed Texas Textbooks Attribute US Government To Moses

[big_dog]

Four years ago, the Texas State Board of Education made national headlines when it worked with Religious Right activists like David Barton to create a set of new textbook standards that played up the role of Christianity in the nation’s founding and played down the role of slavery in the Civil War, among other questionable changes.

According to our friends at the Texas Freedom Network , a new set of social studies textbooks up for approval from the state school board contain many flaws that “reflect the ideological beliefs of politicians on the state board rather than sound scholarship and factual history.”

TFN convened a panel of historians to review proposed textbooks and found that a number of the board’s faulty claims had been absorbed into proposed textbooks. For instance, a number of books followed the board’s advice in making vague claims about Moses as a direct influence on the framers of the Constitution — a claim straight out of David Barton’s pseudo-scholarship.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/proposed-texas-textbooks-channel-david-barton-attribute-us-government-moses#sthash.7I6LOxTK.dpuf

[MohRokTah]

1. Other states need to demand textbook pulishers stop using Texas as a guide.

The easiest way to get off this Texas bullshit jag is to start leveraging tablet technologies as the textbooks and only use eBook text books. this makes publishing and re-editing costs cheap and would take away all influence Texas has over the nation's text books.

[Louisiana1976]

3. Good idea.

[Downwinder]

2. I guess if it comes from Moses, Abbott can't question it.

[edhopper]

4. Fuck Texas

They are poisoning the rest of the country again.

[Gothmog]

5. This is dumb even for the Texas State board of education

It is tough living in Texas at times