Texas Cooks the Textbooks (Scream it loud)

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http://www.newsweek.com/id/238322

NEWSWEEK's guide to the 10 silliest changes that will likely be in the new Texas textbook curriculum.

Who says school is boring? The Texas State Board of Education will make a final vote today on a long list of controversial changes to its textbook standards. The 15-person board, dominated by 10 Republicans, is expected to approve many alterations that give a conservative slant to the study of U.S. history and economics. Fittingly, today's meeting opened with a prayer by board member Cynthia Dunbar, who "used the opportunity to lay out her views that the Bill of Rights and the constitutional founding of America were divinely inspired by her Lord Jesus Christ," according to the Texas Tribune.