Texas ready for textbook showdown

Board to vote on curriculum changes some call ‘backward’

The Texas State Board of Education finalizes curriculum changes:
Among the recommendations facing a final vote: adding language saying the country's Founding Fathers were guided by Christian principles and including positive references to the Moral Majority, the National Rifle Association and the GOP’s Contract with America.

Other amendments to the state's curriculum standards for kindergarten through 12th grade would minimize Thomas Jefferson's role in world and U.S. history because he advocated the separation of church and state; require that students learn about "the unintended consequences" of affirmative action; assert that "the right to keep and bear arms" is an important element of a democratic society; and rename the slave trade to the “Atlantic triangular trade.”

From a story on MSNBC on May 19, 2010.

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