Texas revised its social studies curriculum. I especially like this part:
“Parents should be very wary of politicians designing curriculum,” Duncan said in a statement.
But Republican board member David Bradley said the curriculum revision process has always been political but the ruling faction had changed since the last time social studies standards were adopted.
“We took our licks, we got outvoted,” he said referring to the debate 10 years earlier. “Now it’s 10-5 in the other direction … we’re an elected body, this is a political process. Outside that, go find yourself a benevolent dictator.”
Revisionist history in textbooks has been done, for the most part, out of need to make big government look good, and teachers like big government — probably always will. Teachers are one of the largest groups of government employees (and union as well) and they choose the books. So don’t get too excited until you see the books in the classrooms.
When my husband was teaching science, it was amazing to me (and to him since he was an alternate route teacher) how they manage to get politics and certain agendas into chemistry textbooks which one would assume would be just facts. It was scary.