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Texas Votes Against Experts Fact-Checking Textbooks

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The Texas school board has voted against allowing academic experts to fact-check their textbooks, instead instituting a rule that any textbook review panels must be composed of a majority of people with “sufficient content expertise and experience” to audit the materials. What do you think?


“But the only way to ensure history doesn’t repeat itself is to make it up.”

Kara Jensen • Training Certifier

“It’s hard to trust experts when they’ve gotten it so occasionally wrong.”

Brad Wolff • Band Leader

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“I’ve always felt education should be about more than memorizing facts, so getting rid of those is a step in the right direction.”

Abe Lustrom • Holiday Engineer