Texas School Board Rejects Climate Textbooks, Approves Fossil Fuel-Friendly Alternatives
TL;DR
Texas's Republican-controlled education board voted against including several climate textbooks in the state science curriculum for eighth-graders. The rejected textbooks were criticized for their negative portrayal of fossil fuels, a major industry in the state. Despite Texas adopting standards that require teaching the basics of climate change, some argue that the measure does not go far enough. The decision also contested the inclusion of lessons on evolution. Texas is one of six states that has not adopted the Next Generation Science Standards, which emphasize the reality of climate change and its human causes.
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- Texas: Republican-controlled school board votes against climate textbooks The Guardian US
- Texas approves new textbooks after friction over fossil fuels in the US's biggest oil and gas state The Associated Press
- Texas board rejects many science textbooks over climate change messaging The Texas Tribune
- Texas Rejects Science Textbooks Over Climate Change, Evolution Lessons The Wall Street Journal
- Texas approves new textbooks, asks publishers to edit negative portrayals of fossil fuels NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
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