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How Texas Inflicts Bad Textbooks on Us
posted on June 4, 2012At The New York Review of Books, Gail Collins explains how textbooks produced to comply with The Texas State Board of Education’s mandates affect teaching and learning in public schools around the country. And according to Collins, not for better. “[I]f your children go to pubic school…[and] graduated with a reflexive suspicion of the concept of separation of church and state and an unexpected interest in the contributions of the National Rifle Association to American history, you know who to blame.”
Read at The New York Review of Books