Monday, March 15, 2010

Yep

In late 2004 I typed a "rant" about the future of textbooks, and how eventually the conservatives will start making their own versions of history.


Well, that time has now come.
The nation’s public school curriculum may be in for a Texas-sized overhaul, if the Lone Star state’s influential recommendations for changes to social studies, economics and history textbooks are fully ratified later this spring. Last Friday, in a 10-to-5 vote split right down party lines, the Texas State Board of Education approved some controversial right-leaning alterations to what most students in the state—and by extension, in much of the rest of the country—will be studying as received historical and social-scientific wisdom. After a public comment period, the board will vote on final recommendations in May.

Yeah, this country is totally gonna make it...