"Fair and Balanced" (FOX) Education in Texas.

The Texas school board has done it - revised the social studies curriculum. The material will not be called social studies but Republican Revisionist Ritings. In this environment it is not surprising that employers are finding better talent in other countries- like Brazil or Hungary.

What is rather disturbing is the lack of criticism of these revisions by the leaders in both the public and private sectors.

Texas Conservatives Win Vote on Textbook Standards - NYTimes.com: "AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light...In recent years, board members have been locked in an ideological battle between a bloc of conservatives who question Darwin’s theory of evolution and believe the Founding Fathers were guided by Christian principles, and a handful of Democrats and moderate Republicans who have fought to preserve the teaching of Darwinism and the separation of church and state.

Since January, Republicans on the board have passed more than 100 amendments to the 120-page curriculum standards affecting history, sociology and economics courses from elementary to high school. The standards were proposed by a panel of teachers.

“We are adding balance,” said Dr. Don McLeroy, the leader of the conservative faction on the board, after the vote. “History has already been skewed. Academia is skewed too far to the left.”"