Texas State Board of Education ‘Manipulated’ and ‘Politicized’ Texas Curriculum Standards According to Conservative Group – The conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute released an analysis that says Texas’ new social studies curriculum standards are so politicized that they will undermine the education of a generation of Texas kids[, and keep the state under Republican control].
The think tank’s analysis charges that the right-wing bias in the standards is so bad that it almost mirrors the kind of indoctrination promoted by schools in the old Soviet Union. It also says members of the State Board of Education (SBOE) “showed themselves determined to inject their personal religious beliefs into history education.†And it slams those state board members for displaying an “overt hostility and contempt for historians and scholars†in writing the new standards.
Mike Huckabee Wants Americans to Be Indoctrinated at Gunpoint – Mike Huckabee has just been caught on video, at a Christian supremacist conference, stating that Americans should be forcibly indoctrinated at gunpoint. The organization which hosted the “Rediscover God In America” conference, United in Purpose, has edited Huckabee’s comment from footage of his speech, but not before People For The American Way’s Kyle Mantyla captured the unedited footage, in which Mike Huckabee states, “I almost wish that there would be, like, a simultaneous telecast, and all Americans would be forced – forced at gunpoint no less – to listen to every David Barton message, and I think our country would be better for it.”
David Barton is the leading promoter of a brand of falsified American history altered to support the claim that America was founded as a Christian, rather than a secular, nation. As Chris Rodda, who has authored an entire book debunking Barton’s brand of pseudo-history, writes, “I was quite surprised … to come across a video clip from this conference on the People for the American Way (PFAW) Right Wing Watch blog with the headline “Huckabee: Americans Should Be Forced, At Gunpoint, To Learn From David Barton.” I had watched Huckabee’s speech. How on earth could I have missed a statement like that? Well, I didn’t. It had been edited out of the webcast that I had watched.
In Two Years, the US May Fall Behind China in Science Research – China will soon surpass the US as the country that publishes the most scientific papers. China is currently only second to the US now and will be the dominant publisher of scientific papers by 2013, a report by the Royal Society says. China, says the BBC, has increased spending on science by 10% since 1999 and now spends over $100 billion on science. In 2006, China’s schools graduated as many as 1.5 million science and engineering students.
Republican Budget to Kill Innovation, Clean Energy and Transportation – The Republican budget proposal completely kills the following in FY2011:
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Jim
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