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In Texas, Cute And Cuddly 'Pandas' Wage War On Science Education | Education | Change.org

In Texas, Cute And Cuddly 'Pandas' Wage War On Science Education | Education | Change.org

In Texas, Cute And Cuddly 'Pandas' Wage War On Science Education

Could rogue pandas be targeting Texas science education textbooks?

It sure looks that way, with news from the Texas Freedom Network reporting that the anti-evolution publisherFoundation for Thought and Ethics (FTE) will be submitting their own special brand of curriculum material to the Texas State Board of Education later this year.

FTE is best-known for their 'intelligent design' science textbook Of Pandas And People, which a federal judge ruled in 2005 could not be taught in public schools because it violated the Constitution. That landmark Dover,