Texas Textbooks: Is America ‘Exceptional’?
Clashes among members of the Texas Board of Education over the content of students' textbooks have come, in part, to focus on a once obscure intellectual concept -- "American exceptionalism" -- that has now seen the president of the United States weigh in. Although definitions in intellectual debates can be tricky, the concept of "American exceptionalism" may be defined as the notion that the United States, by ... read more
























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Maggie Kerkman
March 12, 2010 1:15 PM
TX Board of Ed Passes Draft Curriculum
A conservative-stacked panel of Texas Board of Education members endorsed a draft proposal of the state's social studies curriculum on Friday. The curriculum, if approved, will be used to ... read more