Texas Education Board Approves Controversial New Social Studies Curriculum for Public High Schools
The curriculum adds lessons on "radical Islam" and Christianity’s influence after weeks of debate and public testimony from hundreds of Texans.
- The Texas State Board of Education approved a new high school social studies curriculum that emphasizes radical Islam as the motivation behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and describes Prophet Muhammad's military campaigns as brutal while also highlighting Christianity's influence on Western civilization.
- The curriculum mandates studying Christianity's role in Western civilization and American history, including topics such as the spread of Christianity, crusades, and moral influences on abolition movements alongside controversial material on Islam.
- The curriculum changes, set to be introduced in the 2030-31 school year, faced opposition from Democratic board members, Muslim groups, students, curriculum experts, and organizations like CAIR, who criticized it as biased, historically inaccurate, and potentially promoting prejudice.
- Board members defended the curriculum as the product of a democratic process and a long effort, calling the revisions a major accomplishment and less divisive than portrayed.
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Texas Board of Education Approves Plan to Teach That 9/11 is Tied to Radical Islam
"Several Democratic State Board of Education members pushed back against the wording, but the Republican-majority board still approved that section and the other changes on Friday." The post Texas Board of Education Approves Plan to Teach That 9/11 is Tied to Radical Islam first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
‘NOT compatible with the West!’ State adopts controversial school standards that directly tie ‘radical Islam’ to 9/11
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State education board finalizes anti-Islamic rewrite of Texas social studies lessons – WTOP News
State Board of Education members on Friday approved a rewrite of what Texas high schoolers learn in social studies, disregarding pleas from Muslims who testified that schools should teach how people of Islamic faith positively contributed to world history. The Republican majority instead adopted a lesson, for example, requiring public school students to learn that...
Texas Board Approves 'Radical Islam' 9/11 Curriculum
Texas's Republican-majority Board of Education gave final approval to a high school social studies curriculum that ties "radical Islam" to the September 11 attacks, and progressive critics and Muslim advocacy groups are calling it bigotry. The board voted on Friday to adopt the amended standards covering U.S. history, government, and world geography, overriding objections from […]
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