Things are really moving backwards down in Louisiana with Gov. Bobby Jindal’s new school voucher program. These voucher programs divert state education funds to primarily private religious schools. Many of these religious schools use textbooks that actually teach young earth creationism, and a historical narrative that is not based in reality – it’s as...
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Daily Archives: June 27, 2012
Louisiana Taxpayer-Funded Creationism and Bigotry
Texas Republican Party’s Official 2012 Anti-Critical Thinking Platform
Feel free to read through the entire GOP platform here: Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the...
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