{"id":25308,"date":"2010-03-12T21:05:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/03\/12\/texas-approves-right-wing-curr\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T21:05:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:05:29","slug":"texas-approves-right-wing-curr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/12\/texas-approves-right-wing-curr\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Approves Right Wing Curriculum Revisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers&#8217; commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/13\/education\/13texas.html?adxnnl=1&#038;adxnnlx=1268445667-g3FpkQxCJ2VnILz+up8G+w\">NYT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers&#8217; commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/12\/texas-approves-right-wing-curr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Approves Right Wing Curriculum Revisions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[183],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Ac","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}