{"id":2066,"date":"2010-03-19T10:18:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T15:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/19\/texas-makes-the-usa-sad-and-ignorant\/"},"modified":"2010-03-19T10:18:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T15:18:39","slug":"texas-makes-the-usa-sad-and-ignorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/19\/texas-makes-the-usa-sad-and-ignorant\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas makes the USA sad… and ignorant"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Texas Board of Education is at it again. Having failed to achieve a complete<\/em> victory in their efforts<\/a> to instill their anti-science views on their children (and, by nature of their undue influence on the textbook publishing industry<\/a>, the nation’s children), they’ve moved on… but not very far.<\/p>\n

The new target is the history curriculum, onto which they want to slather their revisionist, right-wing coating of make-believe. You can read more about it from Phil Plait<\/a> (and a multitude<\/a> of<\/a> others<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It’s absurd and they should know better… but they don’t. The influence Texas wields over textbook publishers makes the problem a national one and since it’s unlikely that the Texas BOE members in question will change their tune anytime soon, perhaps it would behoove us to look to textbook publishers instead.<\/p>\n

Roger Ebert has the right idea and this quote is what spurred me to write about the issue.<\/p>\n

Publishers with any pride would tell the Texas Board of Education to publish their own textbooks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wholeheartedly agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Texas Board of Education is at it again. Having failed to achieve a complete victory in their efforts to instill their anti-science views on their children (and, by nature of their undue influence on the textbook publishing industry, the nation’s children), they’ve moved on… but not very far. The new target is the history … <\/p>\n

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