Christian right aims to change history lessons in Texas schools

The Guardian by Chris McGreal | Jul. 22, 2009 (News Report)
State's education board to consider adding Christianity's role in American history to curriculum

The Christian right is making a fresh push to force religion onto the school curriculum in Texas with the state's education board about to consider recommendations that children be taught that there would be no United States if it had not been for God. Members of a panel of experts appointed by the board to revise the state's history curriculum, who include a Christian fundamentalist preacher who says he is fighting a war for America's moral soul, want ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 29, 2009

Such efforts to officially flux the history lessons into absurd religiosity need to be reported, and it is done pretty disgustingly here.

Ye gods. Is there no end to arrogant ignorance?

“I don’t think anyone disputes that faith played a role in our history. But it’s a stretch to say that it played the role described by David Barton and Peter Marshall. They’re absurdly unqualified to be considered experts. It’s a very deceptive and devious way to distort the curriculum in our public schools,”

There’s no doubt that history education needs a boost in Texas.

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