Texas tampers with textbooks (South Carolina concerns)

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Why should anyone in South Carolina care about the recent vote by the Texas Board of Education on curriculum changes? Simple: As goes Texas, so goes much of the rest of the nation, at least when it comes to what is contained in textbooks used in public schools.

In Texas alone, according to the Associated Press, the board’s final decision will determine history and social studies education for almost 5 million K-12 students over the next 10 years. And as the state has such influence over textbook publishers, Texas’ standards will essentially be nationwide standards.

And in Texas, where Gov. Rick Perry advocates secession and the state wields so much power with textbook publishers because of the size of its school population (thanks in part to its high Hispanic number), the board recently gave preliminary approval to social studies textbooks that, among other things:
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http://www.independentmail.com/news/2010/mar/21/texas-tampers-textbooks/

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1. Wow - South Carolina thinks we're nuts

And they have no reason to be throwing stones - glass houses you know - I mean they got'em too. :shrug: