Topic: Texas State Board of Education

Texas Board of Ed considering resolution calling for publishers to limit Islam in textbooksSocial conservatives are seeking to curtail references to Islam in Texas textbooks, warning of what they describe as a creeping Middle Eastern influence in the nation's publishing industry.The State ...
It seems that a recent poll of almost a thousand Texas voters (selected from a wide socioeconomic sample) indicates that in general, folks would like to see curriculum standards established by teachers and educators, rather than the politicians on the State Board ...

Texas BOE Gives Math Books the Boot

The article reports on the rejection of the of the third-grade edition of the book " The board members who voted against the McGraw-Hill textbook stated that it relies too much on calculators and peer activities as opposed to traditional approaches. NEW ...

Two Million MinutesWell Spent

The article reviews the documentary film " Texas BOE Gives Math Books the Boot IN A DECISION THAT BETTER REPRESENTS A GROWING POWER struggle over the approval of classroom materials than students' education, the Texas Board of Education's recent rejection of the ...

Faith, Hope, and Chastity

Monica's situation is more common in Texas than in any other state. Texas ranks number one in teenage births, which, all told, cost taxpayers at least $1 billion a year. ) While the number of teenage births in Texas is actually going ...