Ethics

Texas BOE Prepares to Ruin Social Studies

By Ed Brayton

Fresh from its tireless (and largely successful) efforts to weaken the science curriculum, the Texas State Board of Education has set its sights on ruining the social studies curriculum too. It starts with the appointment of a panel of "experts" chosen by the board to make recommendations on that curriculum, which includes supreme wingnuts like David Barton and Peter Marshall.

Now the SBOE has appointed the curriculum writing team for social studies and it has an equally undistinguished group of nuts on it. Like Bill Ames, who claims that those who advocate comprehensive sex education actually want teenagers to get pregnant:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 23, 2009 (boomark / email).