Texas Board of Education Joins the 20th Century, Decides to Teach Evolution After All

[crossfire]

Victory for evolution in Texas

Pop the champagne corks. The Texas Board of Education has unanimously come down on the side of evolution. In 14-0* vote, the board today approved scientifically accurate high school biology textbook supplements from established mainstream publishers--and did not approve the creationist-backed supplements from

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[arcaneaspersion]

My state got something right for once! Color me shocked!

[themaus]

Right??

[one_hoopy_frood]

THANK YOU. I am so so so glad to hear this -- the fact that Texas has such a big market for text books would really fuck up science education for the rest of the country if they'd gone in favor of creationism. I can't believe this is even an argument still in this country.

[arcaneaspersion]

I know, I was just telling my mother this and I said, "It's amazing it came down to a vote whether or not to teach SCIENCE in SCIENCE classes." Unbelievable!

[zer05ive]

Took this place long enough, criminy...

[escherichiacola]

Text books are still pretty terrible. At least they didn't make them worse.

[lickety_split]

I wish there were more discussion on the content of our history textbooks.

[juunanagou18]

That's exactly what I was coming in here to gripe about.

[fauxdistressed]

seriously. I work with the most biased POS textbook I have ever read. my students and I just make fun of it all the time. I like to think that the authors were trolling, but it's sadly not so.

[vanillakokakola]

are you allowed to assign your students books like "lies my teacher told me," or would it have to come out of your own pocket?