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Unfortunately, this example of the right wing forcing its agenda down the throats of Texas children comes as no surprise. Textbook publishers who want to tap into the nation’s second largest textbook market must go through a gauntlet of citizen watchdog groups and right-wing think tanks who inspect the books before passing them on to the no less conservative State Board of Education for approval. By these means the Lone Star State has already been rewriting American History from the perspective of the hard-line religious right for years...
...love all movies: Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Chinatown,” says Bird. “I’m just a movie lover, it doesn’t matter whether they are animated...
...Citizen, a sporadically published newspaper at the Kennedy School of Government, appeared to be the lone dissenter among student publications in the area, endorsing Ralph Nader, the independent—and far-left—candidate...
...airwaves are flooded with politically-minded songs from previously disinclined artists, like Eminem’s “Mosh” and Jadakiss’ smash “Why,” and people are packing in rallies and conventions held by Citizen Change, Simmons’ HSAN and the Hip-Hop Convention. This media-savvy organizing, coupled with the traditional grassroots registration and voter turnout by groups like the NAACP, America Coming Together (ACT) and America Votes, has resulted in surging registration rates for new black voters...
...Partisanship does not belong in the classroom, but one does not stop being a citizen when one becomes a teacher,” wrote Burbank Professor of Political Economy Dwight H. Perkins, a Kerry contributor, in an e-mail message...