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Does Chaos Have Meaning? | The New York Academy of Sciences - 1 views

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    Award-winning filmmaker Shekhar Kapur and astrophysicist Piet Hut discuss what chaos is and what it means when it comes to the universe.
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Texas Braces for Debate on U.S. History Standards - 0 views

  • What the state incorporates into its standards can have nationwide significance because publishers often look to Texas, as well as California—the two biggest adoption states—when writing textbooks.
  • Some people questioned whether all the experts had the credentials to judge social studies standards.
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      Some people questioned the methodology and credentials of the "experts."
  • “who have influenced the community, state, and nation.”
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  • Mr. Marshall wrote, “To have Cesar Chavez listed next to Ben Franklin is ludicrous. Chavez is hardly the kind of role model that ought to be held up to our children as someone worthy of emulation.”
  • Weighing Gravitas
  • They used the word “include” in the standards to mark a historical person students would be required to learn about and the phrase “such as” to mark someone teachers could choose to mention in their lessons, without requiring it.
  • “you want to have some order out of the chaos,”
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    Texas is reissuing US History textbooks this year with a lot of controversial additions and deletions.
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    Texas textbooks influence the entire US History curriculum around the country. What do you think the effect of Texas' changes will be to history as American students understand it?
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