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Groups still pushing for changes to Texas social studies textbooks
A week before the State Board of Education is set to adopt new social studies textbooks for Texas public schools for the first time in a dozen years, groups that have taken issue with the books’ content still are calling on some publishers to make revisions.
Academics and environmental education groups reiterated an argument Wednesday that elementary and intermediate school social studies textbooks by mega-publishers McGraw-Hill and Pearson contain “inaccurate and misleading information about climate change” and the role humans have played in it. They also warned that adopting the texts as they are now could have national implications because Texas — as one of the country’s most populous states with one of the largest textbook markets — has a major influence on the textbooks that end up in schools in many other states.
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