Teach students higher order or critical thinking skills? Not if the Texas Republicans have their way. | Dangerously Irrelevant

Teach students higher order or critical thinking skills? Not if the Texas Republicans have their way. | Dangerously Irrelevant:

Teach students higher order or critical thinking skills? Not if the Texas Republicans have their way.

by dr.scott.mcleod@gmail.com (Scott McLeod)

The Republican Party of Texas states in its official 2012 political platform:

We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based  Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

This is astounding since most everyone else in America seems to understand