Texas Board of Education has decided to pull out of the new national education initiative, Common Core State Standards, for English and Mathematics.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/06/18/Abbott-No-Common-Core-in-Texas
Since the state is so good at education and being radically independent, they came up with their own initiative to supplant federal standards called Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). Dead last (50 out of 50) in the list of state educational ranking (yes they ripped the bottom spot from such educational bastions as Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas) Texas sees education as the enemy of moral values.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_educational_attainment
Texas politicians have even gone so far as to rewrite textbooks to purge of what they see as liberal bias, everything from Thomas Jefferson’s role in the shaping of the nation to slavery. Creationism is taught beside evolution if evolution is even taught at all. The promotion of God and guns comes above all. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/16/texas-schools-rewrites-us-history
You almost expect them to convert all units of measurement to cubits (my friend’s joke), and Rick Perry can do this all without actually funding education.
http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/15324/texas-gop-platform-defund-education-across-the-board
The next time you have a family member or friend ask you what harm is religion, besides an incredible historical and political laundry list of violence, chicanery, ethnic cleansing, buffoonery, share this with them.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/06/18/Abbott-No-Common-Core-in-Texas
Since the state is so good at education and being radically independent, they came up with their own initiative to supplant federal standards called Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). Dead last (50 out of 50) in the list of state educational ranking (yes they ripped the bottom spot from such educational bastions as Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas) Texas sees education as the enemy of moral values.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_educational_attainment
Texas politicians have even gone so far as to rewrite textbooks to purge of what they see as liberal bias, everything from Thomas Jefferson’s role in the shaping of the nation to slavery. Creationism is taught beside evolution if evolution is even taught at all. The promotion of God and guns comes above all. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/16/texas-schools-rewrites-us-history
You almost expect them to convert all units of measurement to cubits (my friend’s joke), and Rick Perry can do this all without actually funding education.
http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/15324/texas-gop-platform-defund-education-across-the-board
The next time you have a family member or friend ask you what harm is religion, besides an incredible historical and political laundry list of violence, chicanery, ethnic cleansing, buffoonery, share this with them.