Monthly Archives: September 2008

new Texas ELAR standards available

The hotly contested new Texas standards for English Language Arts & Reading are now available from the Texas Education Agency.

Texas science standards drafts posted

Drafts for revised science standards in Texas are now available at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/teks/scienceTEKS.html .
A press release by the Texas Freedom Network notes that the work groups that prepared the drafts for the various science disciplines “removed unscientific language about `strengths and weaknesses’ of scientific theories for biology and other high school science courses.” That language is still [...]