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Texas Rejects Science Textbooks Over Climate Change, Evolution Lessons
The Texas State Board of Education voted Friday to block science lessons published by eight companies from appearing on an influential statewide list of textbook providers, citing problems with the way they depicted climate change and evolution.Some of the 15 elected board members raised issues with a book from publisher Discovery Education because it discussed how the U.S. isn’t energy independent and lags behind other nations in oil reserves. A biology textbook from McGraw Hill won approval only after the publisher agreed to remove some graphics depicting human and primate evolution.
“There is no evidence that an entirely different species can come from another species,” board member Evelyn Brooks said Tuesday during discussion of McGraw Hill’s biology textbook. The chairman of the board reminded Brooks that including creationism to appease religious families could be unconstitutional.
D’Alessio said a half-dozen members of the curriculum team spent a year-and-1/2 customizing Green Ninja’s project-based middle-school science curriculum for Texas students. The company celebrated when a panel of Texas teachers gave it a perfect score for meeting state standards—then watched this week as their hopes of being widely adopted in Texas crumbled.
“There are theories about fossil fuels, there are not agreed-upon facts,” board member Julie Pickren said Tuesday when discussing fifth-grade science materials from Savvas Learning Company. The materials, she said, depicted an anti-fossil-fuel position that “would have a detriment to the Texas GDP, the Texas economy, considering the amount of our GDP that is related to fossil fuels and the amount of our workforce.”
Stupid scientists didn't take the Texas economy into consideration.
Texas Rejects Science Textbooks Over Climate Change, Evolution Lessons
The Texas State Board of Education voted to block science lessons published by eight companies from an influential list of textbook providers because of how they depicted climate change and evolution.
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'Eliminate another barrier': Teachers' union seeks to end basic skills test requirement for aspiring educators | Blaze Media
A New Jersey teachers' union is seeking to eliminate the basic skills test requirement for aspiring educators, according to a Tuesday press release.The New Jersey Education Association, representing approximately 200,000 active and retired education professionals, is leading an effort to remove...
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In Wisconsin, The Ability to Read May No Longer Be a Requirement for Teachers
What could go wrong?
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- The following states require the Foundations of Reading test: Arkansas, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and Ohio.