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November 19, 2015 02:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wWumVOfRPh4/texas-narrowly-rejects-allowing-academics-to-fact-check-public-school-textbooks
Texas Narrowly Rejects Allowing Academics To Fact-Check Public School Textbooks
jriding writes with news that in a 8-7 vote the Texa State Board of Education rejected a plan to create a group of state university professors to fact-check textbooks approved for the state's 5.2 million public-school students. The CS Monitor reports: "The Board of Education approves textbooks in the nation's second-largest state and stood by its vetting process — despite a Houston-area mother recently complaining that a world geography book used by her son's ninth grade class referred to African slaves as 'workers.' The publisher, McGraw-Hill Education, apologized and moved to make immediate edits."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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