Jan 15, 2010

Texas Tries to Officially Rehabilitate Joe McCarthy in Textbooks

Good enough for Texas. From The Rehabilitation Of Joseph McCarthy? Texas Textbooks Process Grinds On
by Justin Elliott

When we last checked in on the U.S. history textbooks standards setting process down in Texas, the conservative-dominated State Board of Education was mulling one-sided requirements to teach high school students about Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly, and the Moral Majority.

Now, in the home stretch of a process that will set the state's nationally influential standards, a liberal watchdog group is worried that the State Board of Education will try to push through changes to claim that communist-hunting Sen. Joseph McCarthy has been vindicated by history, among other right-wing pet issues.

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