texas board of education

New instruction material prepared by the Board of Education says the 'null hypothesis' has to be that there had to be some intelligent agency behind the appearance of living things. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/142452/20110507/texas-controversy-over-teaching-evolution-brews.htm

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." It's hard to imagine a more fitting illustration of this quote from George Orwell's 1984 than the current effort by the Texas School Board to remove everything from text books that they see as favorable to...

The Texas Board of Education will consider a ruling on Islam's portrayal in history and social studies text books. Apparently the Board of Education in Texas is concerned that Islam is given more coverage than Christianity in history and social studies text books and that it is skewed to an...

Holy right wing paranoia, Batman! http://www.tfn.org/site/DocServer/McLeroy_Amendments_-_May.pdf?docID=1461 The justifications for the inclusion of studies of the eugenics movment are absolutely insane.

It's not just creationism that the Texas Board of Education wants in public text books. The fight last week was about history: Full: Texas Tribune

Don McLeroy had a column in Sunday's Bryan-College Station Eagle. It's an amazing collection of falsehoods, misinformation, and even a quote mine of Gould. You can download an mp3 lecture with McLeroy describing the "science" of intelligent design. The man clearly doesn't know what consensus...

This is an interesting turn of events for Don McLeroy, who is awaiting confirmation for another term on the Texas Board of Education: Full article: Austin America-Statesman More on Don McLeroy: Full: AMERICAN-STATESMAN

This is funny. Last year the Institute for Creation Research was denied permission to offer graduate degrees in science since the program deviates from standard scientific knowledge and practices (ie denying science in favor of religion). Various members of the board said if they offer a...

Teaching evolution now protected Maybe a bright note: although the vote on evolution was 8-7, "The final board vote to adopt the new standards [was] 13-2, with dissenting votes by Rene Nunez, D-El Paso, and Mary Helen Berlanga, D-Corpus Christi. Everyone across the nation who is in favor of...

Link: [Things are getting really scary in Texas, Part 1: Beware the evo-atheists!] Excerpt:

The Discovery Institute just posted Stephen Meyer's recommendations to the Texas Education Board. Meyer, a creationist and co-founder of the institute was selected, along with two other DI connected evolution critics, by the board to make recommendations on science with other three scientists...

The Texas SBOE (State Board of Education) is due for elections in November. The board has asked the state Attorney General to turn over the 1995 law that limits the boards authority over textbooks and to return the selection of textbook content back to the SBOE. Far right members are...