13 September, 2014

From Texas, the bellwether of conservative thought | Jay Bookman | www.ajc.com

From Texas, the bellwether of conservative thought | Jay Bookman | www.ajc.com: Overall, Fordham finds, "Texas has constructed a bizarre amalgam of traditionally ahistorical social studies — combining the usual inclusive, diversity-driven checklists with a string of politically and religiously motivated historical distortions" in its standards.

A few years ago, I might have dismissed such efforts to hijack the education system as the nonsense that they are, but I've learned better. There's something in the air these days that puts the bizarre on the same footing as the rational, that treats truth and accuracy as victims to be sacrificed in service to some larger if amorphous cause. You don't dare brush aside such assaults on reason as too crazy to go anywhere, because before you know it ....