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Write wing: how conservative political activists turned public school textbooks into the latest test of our moral values.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-JAN-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Write wing: how conservative political activists turned public school textbooks into the latest test of our moral values.(FAQ)

Article Excerpt
Who decides which textbooks are used in the public schools? It's up to the State Board of Education, whose fifteen members are elected from districts around the state. But by the time a book actually gets in front of the SBOE, it seems that nearly everyone in Texas has weighed in and tried to massage its content.

How so? First, consider the tortured three-year approval process for textbooks. It begins with a notice sent to publishers by the Texas Education Agency soliciting books that comply with the state's curriculum requirements for each subject. (Textbooks have a nine-year life span...

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