According to this editorial at the Austin American Statesman's website, Texas has taken it upon itself to rewrite history. While this does not shock me after Texas's past reputation with education, I do wonder how much research this unnamed author has done exactly. The target audience of this editorial is obviously other liberal persons like the author. As far as the author's credibility, I personally would say it is questionable at best. Not only is the author unnamed (as far as I could see anyway) but they also included a link at the bottom of the editorial to backup their research. The link, however, was not only in a "tinyurl" format, which simple does not seem professional to me EVER but it easily could have been embedded into the text. Heck, I can do it, why can't they?
The author of this editorial argues against Texas's censored textbooks, at least as far as the subject of history. According to this author "The board ignored the experts and instead adopted a hodgepodge of wishful thinking, distortion, exaggeration and fantasy dressed up as historical fact." It is hard to discern exactly what all that means, especially with the oh-so scholarly use of the word "hodgepodge", but it sounds pretty bad, right? The hidden meaning behind all of that is that Texas is once again censoring their Text books and in this case putting certain spins on some of America's history and entirely leaving out other parts.
All in all, though I can not say I was very impressed by this editorial, I do agree with the main point and I have been annoyed by the censorship of textbooks in Texas in the past.
But all of this, as always, is just from a student's perspective.
p.s. For a little laugh read through the comments on that editorial.
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