Crying wolf — again
The State Board of Education is still politicizing our children's textbooks.
Copyright 2010, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Sept. 27, 2010, 9:45PM
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EmailWe were happy to see the end of summer on many counts, not least because we thought we'd have a year to recover from being the nation's laughing stock over our State Board of Education's annual assault on the integrity of textbooks and curricula.
Thomas Jefferson had barely stopped spinning in his grave from his trashing a few months ago, and we were still red-faced over the latest attempts to torpedo evolution, when last week they sprang another piece of mischief. This time, the board has put publishers on notice with a resolution condemning "gross pro-Islamic/anti-Christian