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Texas Votes Against Experts Fact-Checking Textbooks

The Texas school board has voted against allowing academic experts to fact-check their textbooks, instead instituting a rule that any textbook review panels must be composed of a majority of people with “sufficient content expertise and experience” to audit the materials. What do you think?

Kara Jensen • Training Certifier

“But the only way to ensure history doesn’t repeat itself is to make it up.”

Kara Jensen • Training Certifier

Brad Wolff • Band Leader

“It’s hard to trust experts when they’ve gotten it so occasionally wrong.”

Brad Wolff • Band Leader

Abe Lustrom • Holiday Engineer

“I’ve always felt education should be about more than memorizing facts, so getting rid of those is a step in the right direction.”

Abe Lustrom • Holiday Engineer