According to Russian history books their invasion on Manchuria is what forced Japan to surrender in WW2, not the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Cue idiots saying this isn't bad.

How do you expect your country to be competitive in the world when you're teaching your kids nothing but crap? Seriously people.

My wife lived in Texas for awhile for college (she lived in Ohio before) and there were some Texans that were amazed that she didn't take Texas State History in high school....

"Explain how Arab rejection of the State of Israel has led to ongoing conflict." And "Evaluate efforts by global organizations to undermine U.S. sovereignty.

I call bullshiat. American kids can't understand those words.

Burr: My wife lived in Texas for awhile for college (she lived in Ohio before) and there were some Texans that were amazed that she didn't take Texas State History in high school....

Question: What is greater than Texas?
Answer: Trick question! Texas cannot be greater than itself.

ZAZ: Iranian males are obliged by law to perform 18 months of military service at age 19.

Iran and much of the rest of the world. (Wikipedia list)

This is one of my favorite wikipedia links people post. As if 10-12 countries constitutes "much of the rest of the world."
(Another wikipedia link)

So the article lists what the author considers the worlds worst textbooks, then lists Texas and says that the curriculum outlined in the article isn't in any textbooks.

Great article, really great article.

That's because Pearson is based in the US.

I went to school in the 90's and was never taught about the War of 1812. Vietnam and the 60's were glossed over, American Imperialism almost wasn't taught at all and WWII was all about how we saved the poor French and British from the Evil Germans.

also:
And, in a salute to Democrats, "Bill Clinton's impeachment" will join Watergate in lessons on "political scandals."
Why is this a problem? I agree it's not as important as the Watergate scandal but he was the only President to be impeached(kinda a big deal)

Honestly why does everyone seem to want to are how the republic of texas conducts itself they are a very close ally along with the other 48 states I don't live in but really what the allies choose to do internally is their own affair.

Maxor: Honestly why does everyone seem to want to are how the republic of texas conducts itself they are a very close ally along with the other 48 states I don't live in but really what the allies choose to do internally is their own affair.

Did you accidentally the whole thing?

dj_bigbird: PhiloeBedoe: Worse than Russia? But they bombed us at Pearl Harbor!!

Your a moran. Pearl Harbor wasn't in the US America!

And besides, it twere the Germans what bombed that thar Pearl Harbor. I done seen it on a documentary bout college life.

ZAZ: Iranian males are obliged by law to perform 18 months of military service at age 19.

Iran and much of the rest of the world. (Wikipedia list)

Other than that it's mostly a list of politically incorrect passages (a few history errors excepted). Can we get California on the list beside Texas for its own legislatively-mandated indoctrination?

Came here for this. Seemed like an odd talking point.

Stupid article, vague citations, tiny quotes taken with zero context. Article fail.

FunkOut: lilplatinum: FunkOut: Wonder how many think that Texas should secede and become it's own republic?

Not as many as think Quebec should.

Quebec would probably find itself a king who would then build a bunch of palaces and prance around in silk stockings and pantaloons. But Canada won't let Quebec go, no, if just for the simple fact of knowing that it makes them cranky.

/Canadian with a Texan grandmother

How does that work?

You shoot them if they eyeball your wine and cheese curds?

Maxor: Honestly why does everyone seem to want to are how the republic of texas conducts itself they are a very close ally along with the other 48 states I don't live in but really what the allies choose to do internally is their own affair.

In this situation?

The curriculum standards are reviewed every decade and serve as a template for textbook publishers. Texas's 4.8 million public school students make the state one of the largest markets for textbooks and a determinant of what the rest of the country's schoolchildren will study, with national publishers often tailoring their texts to Texas standards.

In general? Because alongside Chicagoans and New Jerseyans(sp?), Texans are really easy to troll. If subby submits a "LOL Missouri sucks" headline he'll maybe get one valiant Missouri defender and zero trolls to exploit that. This means no headline. But if you make fun of Texas, the trolls rush in knowing that this will be easy pickings, and the valiant defenders of the Great Republic of Texas will rise to her defense!

/off to submit chicago pizza/hot dog and new jersey smells/guidos headlines

EvilEgg: The good thing about this is now the smaller states are paying attention and ganging up on the textbook producers. So Texas can have its stupid children without dragging down the rest of the country.

I work for a textbook publisher, so I'm really getting a kick...

Actually, I do. And we were already publishing special "Texas Editions" of a number of books. It doesn't stop with history and other social studies. Math-oriented books have to have more Juans and Marias written into the examples. They also have specialized teaching guidelines in place for numerous subjects that have to be adhered to. When they're that big, you can easily print a special DERP edition for history books.

So those textbooks are like print versions of Fox News.

I went to a private Christian school until 4th grade, lived in the South America and went to an all boys academy in 5th grade, then entered public school from 5th grade on in an affluent, densely Jewish populated town.

I honestly thought that Jewish people were extinct (ala Mayans, Aztecs) from my private school days. They talked about them like mystical, chosen beings and I was surprised to meet a bunch of little Goldbergs and Steins in 5th grade.

/WTF is Rosh Hashanah?
//You don't celebrate Christmas!?!?!

Wow, there's sure a lot of butthurt folks complaining about the Texas standards, but all of the examples given are actual facts. Clinton was impeached. Sanger did promote eugenics. The founding fathers did use religious principles in our country's early documents. Just because you don't like facts doesn't mean they aren't true.

FunkOut: aagrajag:

/Canadian with a Texan grandmother

How does that work?

You shoot them if they eyeball your wine and cheese curds?

Other way round, I sic a moose on 'em if they get near my Dr. Pepper and pecan pie.

Hey, that works too.

//Canadian with relatives in Texas

Voiceofreason01:
And, in a salute to Democrats, "Bill Clinton's impeachment" will join Watergate in lessons on "political scandals."
Why is this a problem? I agree it's not as important as the Watergate scandal but he was the only President to be impeached(kinda a big deal)

Except that he wasn't the only President to be impeached. Look up Andrew Johnson. Should that be mandatory, too?

Voiceofreason01:
also:
And, in a salute to Democrats, "Bill Clinton's impeachment" will join Watergate in lessons on "political scandals."
Why is this a problem? I agree it's not as important as the Watergate scandal but he was the only President to be impeached(kinda a big deal)

Oddly enough, I think you may have just illustrated the problem.

Rapmaster2000:
In general? Because alongside Chicagoans and New Jerseyans(sp?), Texans are really easy to troll. If subby submits a "LOL Missouri sucks" headline he'll maybe get one valiant Missouri defender and zero trolls to exploit that. This means no headline. But if you make fun of Texas, the trolls rush in knowing that this will be easy pickings, and the valiant defenders of the Great Republic of Texas will rise to her defense!

/off to submit chicago pizza/hot dog and new jersey smells/guidos headlines

To be fair this is because Missouri is two bastions of civilization surrounded by rural southerners: Saint louis, which varies between an uptight suburb and a demilitarized zone depending where you are and Kansas City, which is mostly pretty nice....I guess.

/nobody likes Missouri

Maxor: Honestly why does everyone seem to want to are how the republic of texas conducts itself they are a very close ally along with the other 48 states I don't live in but really what the allies choose to do internally is their own affair.

FTA
The new curriculum hasn't hit textbooks yet, but pop quizzes are expected to have a slightly different look -- Newsweek recently published new study exercises that the Texas school board is likely to adopt:

Well, we should certainly judge folks on what they may be likely to do, possibly. Probably...

Voiceofreason01: Why is this a problem? I agree it's not as important as the Watergate scandal but he was the only President to be impeached(kinda a big deal)

I'm not sure I'd want to argue that one case of presidential obstruction of justice was better or worse than another's.

tyrajam: Wow, there's sure a lot of butthurt folks complaining about the Texas standards, but all of the examples given are actual facts. Clinton was impeached. Sanger did promote eugenics. The founding fathers did use religious principles in our country's early documents. Just because you don't like facts doesn't mean they aren't true.

It's more about the focus given to certain subjects in limited class time.

We could do a whole semester on Nixon's malfeasance, or war crimes in Vietnam, for example.

But that might take valuable class time from the "Apple Pie is Jesus' Love" segment.

The blame should be assigned to the school book publishers. They want to print one edition of a book for national use. Texas has this insane Christian book-panel that only wants religious-type bullshiat in the state's textbook. Texas buys a lot of school books. So the publishers print one edition that conforms to the wack-job Texas standards. Texas doesn't need its own tag. It needs to get the hell out of the US and get a 7th flag.