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Texas
Texas State Board of Education must still vote on adopting the revised textbooks CONTACTS: Robert Luhn, NCSE, 510/601-7203 Dan Quinn, TFN, 512/322-0545 Lisa Hoyos, Climate Parents, 510/282-0440 Publishers have agreed to correct or remove inaccurate passages promoting climate change denialism from…
Texas
The Texas state board of education voted to adopt a slate of social studies textbooks for use in the state on November 21, 2014. Among the books approved were several textbooks that, after criticism from NCSE and its allies in the scientific, educational, and civil liberties communities,…
Texas
"McGraw-Hill, the second-largest educational publisher in the world, has removed key passages from a proposed Texas textbook that cast doubt on climate science," reports the National Journal (November 17, 2014). The decision follows on the heels of a similar decision by Pearson, previously…
Texas
Texas State Board of Education must still vote on adopting the revised textbooks CONTACTS: Robert Luhn, NCSE, 510/601-7203 Dan Quinn, TFN, 512/322-0545 Lisa Hoyos, Climate Parents, 510/282-0440 Publishers have agreed to correct or remove inaccurate passages promoting climate change…
Texas
"Climate scientists can breathe a bit easier," the National Journal (November 13, 2014) reports. "Pearson Education — the largest educational publisher in the world — has cut material from a proposed Texas social-studies textbook that cast doubt on the human causes of global warming." As…