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Texas school board defines American education | by Kickstart | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
| It's not all doom and gloom on the textbook issue. |
by thewrongcrowd |
2005-03-26 12:26:48 |
The Center for Education Reform notes
of the top 10 performing states on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), only one has a statewide adoption program for textbooks. But of the bottom 10 states, nine have textbook adoption on the state level, underscoring the importance of wider flexibility in choosing texts that are right for children.
Essentially what schools in "blue" states have done is chosen to either not purchase the less-than-adequate textbooks or to supplement those texts.
"Blue" versus "red" is also a bit of a mislabel. Three states (2 "red", 1 "blue") with state-wide adoption purchase 30% of the nation's textbooks: California, Florida, and Texas. Texas has long been cited as the source for the fundamentalist influences on the textbooks; California is criticized for "dumbing down" and requiring "flash" for theirs.
The hearings held by the Texas selection committee are frequently hot and ugly with public (albeit minority) opposition to the righties.
A bright note from an unlikely place... Kansas, well known for their state board's banning of the teaching of evolution (and requiring textbooks that reflected that "standard", voted out the majority of right-wing loonies the first chance they got. |
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