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Texas Textbook Committee Updates
Mon, 03/15/2010 - 12:52
New standards in history class
Texas board endorses conservative-backed curriculum
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6910429.html
Texas ed board vote reflects far-right influences
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100313/ap_on_re_us/us_texas_schools_social_...
Liberalism takes hit in textbook debate
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=935456
Texas Board Reshapes Social Studies Courses
Read more: http://www.newsok.com/texas-board-reshapes-social-studies-courses/articl...
Legislation
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Race To The Top
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Recent Blog Posts
- Growing loans and unemployment calls benefit of higher education to question
- Gulen Charter Schools, time for America to wake up
- KOSU's Story On The Million Cell Phone as Incentive Reading Program
- (Revised) Clash of the Education Titans
- Oklahoma City Public Schools will now give away CELL PHONES to 6th and 7th graders to 'incentivize' reading
- Intrinsic VS Extrinsic Motivation In Schools, or Why We Should NOT Give Kids Cell Phones As A Reward For Reading
- Thank You Oklahoma and ROPE Members!
- Point of View in Saturday's Oklahoman
- Race To The Top of What?
- US history and civics curricula shouldn't be mandated (or "incorporated") but the Oklahoma Murrah bombing SHOULD
Sex Education
- Oklahoma Public Schools Listed with Students Observing the GSLEN Day of Silence April 17, 2010
- The case for abstinence-centered sex ed
- Should schools promote 'gay clubs'?
- Educators warned re: new sex-ed law
- Sex Education in ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS!?
- Everything You Don't Want To Know About Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings, BUT SHOULD
- Obama Czar's 'Homo-genda' Proposed for U.S. Schools Congressional Legislation Called 'A Sexual Revolutionary's Dream'
- Memo to Public Schools: Stop Pushing Sex!
What Your Child is Learning About US History
- Should Oklahomans Believe That only 2.8% of Oklahoma Public School Students Can Pass The National Citizenship Test?
- Obama Education Reform Rhetoric AND Parents 'Awakened' to District Education Agenda
- Elected Officials Score Lower than the General Public on the ISI Civic Literacy Survey
- Who Is Rewriting History?
- NEWLY RELEASED Civic Literacy Report from ISI!
- Shortchanging Our Students
- Look What They're Erasing From U.S. History!
- Mathew Staver on The Huckabee Show; Discusses Changes to History Textbooks
- At Conference, Boren Decries 'Scandalous' Lack of Historical Knowledge
- 75 Percent of Oklahoma Students Can't Name The First President of The U.S.
- It Will Be as if the American Founding Never Happened
Textbook Reviews
Political Indoctrination in the Schools
- The "Alliance for Climate Education" May Be Bringing Their Distorted Version of Reality to Your Child's School
- Oh Yes Virginia, Community Organizers DO Target Your Kids and Here's The Proof!
- Indoctrination Watch: Student contest for “best census cheer”
- The Marxist Storyteller (Howard Zinn) Dies
- HOWARD ZINN’S LEGACY: Instructing Teachers to Disobey Education Codes
- Second Graders Sing About Allah?
- Parent Wants Book Off Union Public Schools Library Shelves
- Obama Organizing in Ohio High School
- Christian speech targeted as 'hate'
- More Radicalizing of Higher Education Ahead
- Training Teachers to Promote 'Social Justice'
Videos
- Union Teachers Explain How to Push Marxism in the Classroom
- The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
- Train Up A Child - Part 1
- Train Up A Child Part 2
- Train Up A Child - Part 3 (Scariest of the 3!)
- Charlotte Iserbyt - Deliberate Dumbing Down of the World
- Our American Form Of Government
- Exposé of Safe & Drug-Free Schools "Czar" Kevin Jennings
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Research
- Common Core State Standards and Race to the Top - An Introduction to Marxism 101
- An Interview with Neal McCluskey: No Evidence or Research for National Standards (Dumbing Down test explanation)
- Analysis: Broken Arrow scandal unfolds with lots of moving parts
- Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto NAEP Scales 2005-2007
- HOPE Isn't Change or Vote NO on State Question 744
- Public School Results at Elite Prep-School Prices
- State Would Pay Heavily For Education Funding Plan
- Groups oppose Oklahoma education spending initiative (SQ 744)
- Superintendents' Pay in Oklahoma Involves Factors Other Than Student Enrollment
- Oklahoma Rank Shows Gain in Education
- Reading scores decline for 4th-, 8th-graders in Oklahoma
- State question on Oklahoma school funds called ‘job killer’
- Oklahoma education plan draws fire
- Coalition launches to defeat State Question 744
- Pitting roads vs. schoolkids just bad for public policy
- No State Left Behind - How To Get States To Improve Their Tests
- A Vote AGAINST State Question 744 is a Vote FOR Oklahoma Public School Students and Taxpayers
- Oklahomans Say More Spending Won't Help Oklahoma Public Education
- New CATO Study Shows Educators Lie
- Interim Legislative Study on the Impact of SQ744 Commissioned by Leslie Osborn
- Information on Senate Bill 1759 - Transparency In State Government/Education
- Not a fan: OEA Shouldn’t Bank on Henry’s Support
- Look for the OEA Label Video
- A Vote AGAINST State Question 744 is a Vote FOR Oklahoma Public School Tax Payers and Parentst
- From One Oklahoman To Another - Vote NO on State Question 744 Video
- Oklahomans Will Always Tell It Like It Is
- The Giant Blob That Ate Oklahoma's State Budget....public education
- SQ 744 opponents decry lack of accountability