{"id":5084789,"date":"2016-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/texas-educators-reject-bizarrely-inaccurate-rewrite-of-mexican-american-history\/"},"modified":"2016-11-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T05:00:00","slug":"texas-educators-reject-bizarrely-inaccurate-rewrite-of-mexican-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2016\/11\/22\/texas-educators-reject-bizarrely-inaccurate-rewrite-of-mexican-american-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Educators Reject Bizarrely Inaccurate Rewrite Of Mexican-American History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/bs.serving-sys.com\/BurstingPipe\/adServer.bs?cn=rsb&amp;c=28&amp;pli=19712434&amp;PluID=0&amp;w=728&amp;h=90&amp;ord=[timestamp]&amp;ucm=true\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><br \/>\nA baffling,\u00a0error-filled attempt to rewrite Mexican-American history doesn\u2019t meet state public education requirements in Texas and is unlikely to get adopted by the school system.<br \/>\nThe Texas State Board of Education rejected the book, <em>Mexican American Heritage<\/em>, in a 14-0 preliminary vote on Wednesday. The text awaits a final determination on Friday, but without a single champion on the Republican-dominated SBOE, it seems unlikely to pass.<br \/>\n&#8220;This marks a new chapter,&#8221; Tony Diaz, a Mexican-American studies professor and ethnic studies advocate, wrote in a message to The Huffington Post, &#8220;where leaders, community, educators, writers, activists, parents and students unite to deliver the American Dream through education.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe textbook submission had alarmed educators and activists who\u2019d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/04\/10\/texas-mexican-american-studies-vote_n_5126215.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #2e7061;\">pressed the SBOE for years<\/span><\/a> to adopt ethnic studies more widely in the state\u2019s majority-Hispanic school system, arguing that such curricula had been shown to improve engagement with students of color.<br \/>\nIn a 2014 decision, the SBOE declined to institutionalize Mexican-American studies as a college-level elective. The board said, however, that local districts were welcome to institute such classes on their own, and invited a call for supplemental textbooks.<br \/>\nThe only publisher to take them up was an outfit called&#8230;..<br \/>\n<em><strong>To read full article: http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/texas-mexican-american-history-textbook_us_582caf9de4b058ce7aa8bdc3?section=us_latino-voices<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baffling,\u00a0error-filled attempt to rewrite Mexican-American history doesn\u2019t meet state public education requirements in Texas and is unlikely to get 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