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Texas education board: Textbooks favor Islam over Christianity
The Texas Board of Education adopts a controversial resolution today that accuses textbook publishers of favoring Islam over Christianity and tells them to stop it. Never mind that the books the board cited as examples of bias were phased out of Texas classrooms long ago.
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03:15 PM ET, 09/24/2010 |
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Texas considers how Islam is portrayed in textbooks
The Texas Board of Education finally adopted its social studies standards a few weeks ago, seeming to put an end to the a huge controversy that erupted when critics accused religious fundamentalists of rewriting American history. Now, apparently, it is taking up a new issue: How students should learn about Islam.
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03:51 PM ET, 09/15/2010 |
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