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Christian Science Monitor
April 19, 2018
The state gave us Buddy Holly, Lyndon Johnson, and George W. Bush. The 20th-century automobile boom was fueled with Texas oil. And thanks to the size of the Texas schoolbook market, the state board of education has a disproportionate influence on the textbooks used in American schools. If it were anÃâà...
Dallas Observer
April 12, 2018
The Texas State Board of Education gave preliminary approval to a Mexican-American studies elective for high school students, closing out a debate that ... without taking one last swipe at the groups that have pushed the board, first for inclusion and then over a racist textbook proposed for the subject twoÃâà...
Texas Tribune
April 11, 2018
After years of debate, the State Board of Education voted preliminarily to create curriculum standards for a Mexican-American studies class. .... African-American, Asian-American and Native American studies, on a list of social studies textbooks it would ask publishers to develop for Texas schools. Critics ofÃâà...
History News Network (HNN)
April 11, 2018
Chicano teachers and scholars have prepared accurate standards for high school classroom teaching. Curriculum is available, and time for a scholar to write a better textbook is needed. The will from the Texas State Board of Education, an elected board, to approve a high school class in Mexican-AmericanÃâà...
Chron.com
April 11, 2018
AUSTIN — Four years after Texas refused to embrace a “Mexican-American Studies” course in a state with a booming Latino population, the State Board of Education tentatively agreed Wednesday to usher in standards that will make the class easier to provide as a high school elective statewide. But in aÃâà...
MyStatesman.com
April 10, 2018
Chicano teachers and scholars have prepared accurate standards for high school classroom teaching. Curriculum is available, and time for a scholar to write a better textbook is needed. The will from the Texas State Board of Education, an elected board, to approve a high school class in Mexican-AmericanÃâà...
San Antonio Express-News
April 8, 2018
This week the Texas State Board of Education could make history. It could pave ... It made a step in that direction in 2016 when it voted unanimously against a racist textbook on Mexican American history that was so non-academic and awful, on so many levels, it received national media attention. Last yearÃâà...
El Paso Times
December 31, 1999
15, 2016, about a proposed Mexican-American studies textbook that educators and activists have criticized. As Hernandez spoke, she ... The Texas State Board of Education on Friday unanimously approved the creation of state standards for a Mexican American studies course. Earlier last week, the boardÃâà...
Austin Chronicle
December 31, 1999
Four years and two failed textbooks later, the Texas State Board of Education finally agreed to provide public high schools with Mexican-American elective ... Instead, they rejected that vote but gave school districts the option to create the course on their own and allowed textbook publishers to submit books.
