My understanding is that Texas is still printing textbooks that do ‘evolution is just a theory’ and don’t mention the age of the universe (and that this has been consistent for the past few decades, and Texas is a large enough market that it distorts overall textbook trends)
Here’s the latest story I found about Texas schools and evolution. After reading it, I think the religious influence described is trivial compared to what’s happening in “progressive” school districts. (I’m not going to link to or describe in detail what I’m seeing, for fear of drawing unwanted attention, but I’ll send it to you via PM.)
The fundamental difference seems to be that most biology teachers have not signed up for teaching religious fundamentalism and their university training didn’t teach them that ideal but critical theory is deep in the university curriculum for teachers.
My understanding is that Texas is still printing textbooks that do ‘evolution is just a theory’ and don’t mention the age of the universe (and that this has been consistent for the past few decades, and Texas is a large enough market that it distorts overall textbook trends)
Here’s the latest story I found about Texas schools and evolution. After reading it, I think the religious influence described is trivial compared to what’s happening in “progressive” school districts. (I’m not going to link to or describe in detail what I’m seeing, for fear of drawing unwanted attention, but I’ll send it to you via PM.)
The fundamental difference seems to be that most biology teachers have not signed up for teaching religious fundamentalism and their university training didn’t teach them that ideal but critical theory is deep in the university curriculum for teachers.