Education group wants Moses mentions cut from new Texas textbooks
The fight over Texas textbooks is back again, and this time, criticism of proposed social studies books touch on religious topics from Moses to Muslims and separation of church and state.
The Texas State Board of Education plans to approve new social studies books in November. On Wednesday, the Texas Freedom Network (TFN) Education Fund, a non-profit aiming “to counter the religious right,” released reviews of 43 history, geography, and government textbooks under consideration. The summary of the reviews says many textbooks “include unsubstantiated claims, unjustifiably biased accounts, and sometimes just plain bad history,” including their emphasis on America’s Judeo-Christian heritage....