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...textbook-selection time in Texas, an annual debate between special interest groups over what students should read in public classrooms. In Austin last week, concerned citizens and publishers jammed the weeklong state textbook committee hearings to criticize publishers' interpretations of sensitive subjects such as civics, health and homemaking, and to promote their...
...Gablers are doing a great service. They're ferreting out slang, vulgarities and also things that are unpatriotic." Yet many classroom teachers object to the Gablers' narrow viewpoints, and the Texas State Teachers Association helped PFAW by sending them the Gablers' criticisms in advance. Says Austin English Teacher Ouida Whiteside: "We all sat back for a long time and thought the whole thing was a joke. Suddenly we realized we'd been had." However, Grace Grimes, a deputy commissioner of education who chaired the textbook hearings, insists that the Gablers are just one component...
Fred Woodworth The American Atheist Austin...
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