Foreshadowing of More Shenanigans from the Texas SBOE (Social Studies Textbook Review Panels)
Well, the Texas State Board of Education looks like it might be preparing for another foray into the culture wars rather than just focusing on sound education. According to a recent release from the Texas Freedom Network, SBOE Politics as Usual: Textbook Review Once Again Plagued by Lack of Expertise, a few of the board members have appointed idealogues to the Social Studies and economics textbook review panels, rather than qualified academics or historians. To quote from the release:
TFN analyzed panels assigned to review textbooks for courses such as U.S. and world history, geography and economics. Out of more than 140 individuals appointed to the panels, only three are current faculty members at Texas colleges and universities. TFN has identified more than a dozen other Texas academics including the chair of the History Department at Southern Methodist University as well as faculty at the University of Texas at Austin who applied to serve but did not get appointments to the panels.But the TFN analysis found that political activists and individuals without social studies degrees or teaching experience got places on the panels. One reviewer, Mark Keough, a Republican nominee for the Texas House District 15 seat, got an appointment to a U.S. History panel after being nominated by SBOE chair Barbara Cargill. Keough, a pastor with degrees in theology, has no teaching experience listed on his application form. Keough recently told the Montgomery County Tea Party that he does not "believe that there is a separation of church and state in the Constitution."
Ugh. I hope that in the end it's no worse than the science textbook review process, where the idealogues only had minor influence in the process, and in the end, the textbook manufacturers didn't capitulate to unfounded objections. And the current SBOE isn't quite as crazy as it was a few years ago, so maybe that'll be the case, but their past performance still has me worried.
If you want to do something about this, you can go visit the TFN page to sign their petition, or of course, write your representative on the SBOE.
For background, and why I'm so worried about this news, here are my previous blog entries dealing with Texas education issues (in chronological order, with the newest at the top). Like I've probably said before, there are a lot of good things about Texas, but the politics can be infuriating sometimes.
- Texas Science Textbook Adoption & Reminder
- CSCOPE Conspiracy?, with follow-up & another follow-up
- 2012 Texas SBOE Election Results
- 2012 Texas SBOE Elections
- Texas Primary Results for SBOE
- Texas Education - Follow Up to the Follow Up to the Science Instructional Materials Debate
- Follow Up to Texas Education in the Budget Crisis
- Texas Education - Follow Up to Science Instructional Materials Debate
- Texas Education - Science Instructional Materials Debate
- Texas Education in the Budget Crisis
- McLeroy Out
- Texas Board of Education in NY Times Magazine (Social Studies standards)
- Strengths and Limitations (Science Standards)
- Texas Science Standards Review Panel
- Shenanigans in the Texas State Board of Education (English Language Arts and Reading curriculum standards)
- Texas Education Agency - Chris Comer
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