Education Texas Expert: Textbooks Need More Religion

Joshua Frazer — July 17, 2009 – 12:10 pm | Education | Republicans | Separation of Church & State Comments (0) Add a comment

According to ThinkProgress, conservative “experts” advising Texas’ school curriculum have made several recommendations on the state’s social studies and history textbooks.

Among the suggestions is a removal of Cesar Chavez, noted Hispanic labor leader, and Thurgood Marshall, the first black U.S. Supreme Court Justice, from textbooks for an apparent lack of stature and contributions.

One of the experts, Peter Marshall, suggested the textbooks should focus more on the impact and contribution of Christianity and the role it “played in the settling or the original colonies.”

Dallas Morning News, which also covered the recommendations, notes that two of the experts singled out Anne Hutchinson, an early advocate of women’s rights and freedom of worship, as not worthy of a place in the textbooks.

“Anne Hutchinson does not belong in the company of these eminent gentlemen,” one expert reportedly said.

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