Cenk Uygur
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Texas Rewrites History In Our Children's Textbooks
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October 26, 2014
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7:45Now Playing"Proposed Texas social studies textbooks may be flawed, but state standards are likely to blame for the imperfections.
In September, nonprofit organization the Texas Freedom Network Education Fundcommissioned a group of history scholars to evaluate proposed social studies textbooks from publishing giants such as Pearson Education and McGraw-Hill Education. The scholars found that several of the textbooks were rife with religious and conservative biases that they said distort history. At the time, the TFN noted that while it was important that inaccuracies be corrected, the root of the problem likely lay with the state's social studies standards, to which the textbooks are expected to cater.” *
Cenk Uygur () and Ana Kasparian () break it down on The Young Turks.
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