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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsTexas Social Science "Experts" Get to Work
By Ed Brayton
That board of social science "experts" that includes religious right apologists with no expertise at all in the subject has hit the ground running, trying to rewrite history to cut out those evil liberals.
"To have César Chávez listed next to Ben Franklin" - as in the current standards - "is ludicrous," wrote evangelical minister Peter Marshall, one of six experts advising the state as it develops new curriculum standards for social studies classes and textbooks. David Barton, president of Aledo-based WallBuilders, said in his review that Chávez, a Hispanic labor leader, "lacks the stature, impact and overall contributions of so many others."Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 13, 2009 (boomark / email).
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