[Phys-l] Science Education in Texas #2

[Richard Hake <rrhake@earthlink.net>]

Some subscribers to Phys-L may be interested in a recent post 
"Science Education in Texas #2" [Hake (2009)].

The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT:  In response to my post "Science Education in Texas," John 
(Texas) Clement stated that the resignation of Chris Comer, Texas 
Education Agency's director of science curriculum, was old news and 
cited a 2007 report by Steven Schafersman, President of the Texas 
Citizens for Science.  I quote an even more complete and up-to-date 
report by Sandhya Bathija (2009), which indicates that (a) Chris 
Comer's lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency was dismissed on 
31 March 2009 by a George-W-Bush-appointed U.S. District Judge; and 
(b) Texas school board  activists may well prevail in infusing 
creationism and intelligent design into Texas schools, as well as 
schools throughout the U.S.  The latter because many publishers tend 
to cater to the curriculum mandates of Texas, evidently the 
second-largest state purchaser of textbooks in the U.S.
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To access the complete 14 kB post please click on <http://tinyurl.com/nb3bem>.

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands.
<rrhake@earthlink.net>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/>
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<http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com/>

REFERENCES
Hake, R.R. 2009. "Science Education in Texas #2," online on the OPEN! 
AERA-L archives at  <http://tinyurl.com/nb3bem>. Post of 28 May 2009 
21:01:29 -0700 to AERA-L, Net-Gold, & PhysLrnR.  The abstract is also 
online at 
<http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/2009/05/science-education-in-texas-2.html> 
with a provision for comments.