Texas Education Takes a Hit

The forecast for the future of Texas education wasn’t looking good, but things have finally taken a turn for the worse:

The Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, [and] questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government.

There’s not much else to say; I already looked at several reasons why this is a bad move in the last post.  It’s not that all of the points the Board voted to include are false – many are factually accurate.  The real problem is still that many of the assertions included in the reformed program aren’t historically sound.  They aren’t arrived at by good historical methodology but are instead motivated by social, political, and ideological considerations.

-Aaron Bekemeyer