Or, should that be “Texas State Soviet of Education?”
Steve Schafersman (of Texas Citizens for Science fame) is live blogging for the Texas Observer, here.
Texas Freedom Network blogs it here.
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Ed Darrell
Retired teacher of law, economics, history, AP government, psychology and science. Former speechwriter, press guy and legislative aide in U.S. Senate. Former Department of Education. Former airline real estate, telecom towers, Big 6 (that old!) consultant. Lab and field research in air pollution control. My blog, Millard Fillmore's Bathtub, is a continuing experiment to test how to use blogs to improve and speed up learning processes for students, perhaps by making some of the courses actually interesting. It is a blog for teachers, to see if we can use blogs. It is for people interested in social studies and social studies education, to see if we can learn to get it right. It's a blog for science fans, to promote good science and good science policy. It's a blog for people interested in good government and how to achieve it. BS in Mass Communication, University of Utah Graduate study in Rhetoric and Speech Communication, University of Arizona JD from the National Law Center, George Washington University
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As a retired Texas teacher I am humiliated and heart sick about the SBOE actions. I used to be just embarrassed but now it is way beyond embarrassment. Even if we were somehow drastically change the make up of the board I don’t know if there is anyway to mitigate the intellectual, factual and emotional destruction that will be caused by the “reformed” standards.
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The Texas Board of Education is a prime example of what Pontius Pilate meant when he asked his cynical question, “What is truth?” Truth in TX is whatever the PTBs say it is. Unfortunately, what happens in TX has an effect on the rest of the country.
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