Coming up January 13 in Austin:

Texas SBOE Takes Up Social Studies Curriculum Standards
The State Board of Education is about to decide whether far-right politics trumps facts and sound scholarship in new social studies curriculum standards for Texas public schools. The state board will hold a public hearing on the proposed new standards on January 13 in Austin.
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We reported in April that the creationist faction on the Texas State Board of Education was moving to pack a key “expert” review panel for the social studies curriculum revision with like-minded ideologues. (See here and here.) We now have the names of all the “expert” panelists. As with the science “expert” panel, it appears that the social studies panel will be evenly split between mainstream academics and ideologues aligned with the creationist faction.
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