Comments on: The Texas Textbook Battle: Fiddling while Rome Burns http://neilblog.schlagergroup.com/2010/04/29/the-texas-textbook-battle-fiddling-while-rome-burns/ History. Education. Technology. Sat, 19 May 2012 02:46:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: SchlagerBlog » Blog Archive » Texas Textbooks: Where do we go from here? http://neilblog.schlagergroup.com/2010/04/29/the-texas-textbook-battle-fiddling-while-rome-burns/#comment-1004 SchlagerBlog » Blog Archive » Texas Textbooks: Where do we go from here? Mon, 24 May 2010 19:20:23 +0000 http://neilblog.schlagergroup.com/2010/04/29/the-texas-textbook-battle-fiddling-while-rome-burns/#comment-1004 [...] my last post on this subject, I wrote that this battle over textbooks obscured some bigger problems in public education in the [...] […] my last post on this subject, I wrote that this battle over textbooks obscured some bigger problems in public education in the […]

]]> By: Ed Darrell http://neilblog.schlagergroup.com/2010/04/29/the-texas-textbook-battle-fiddling-while-rome-burns/#comment-991 Ed Darrell Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:54:00 +0000 http://neilblog.schlagergroup.com/2010/04/29/the-texas-textbook-battle-fiddling-while-rome-burns/#comment-991 Make a comment. We have to take a stand against unreason and stupidity somewhere. You think it's folly to have an effective dropout rate of about 30%? So does everyone else. Teaching crappy history won't help the dropout rate (which is under the purview of a different agency anyway). Why not stand up for good standards, just for the sake of good standards and good history? What would Teddy Roosevelt do? What would Abraham Lincoln do? What would Jefferson do? Make a comment. We have to take a stand against unreason and stupidity somewhere. You think it’s folly to have an effective dropout rate of about 30%? So does everyone else. Teaching crappy history won’t help the dropout rate (which is under the purview of a different agency anyway).

Why not stand up for good standards, just for the sake of good standards and good history?

What would Teddy Roosevelt do? What would Abraham Lincoln do? What would Jefferson do?

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