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Texas
"McGraw-Hill, the second-largest educational publisher in the world, has removed key passages from a proposed Texas textbook that cast doubt on climate science," reports the National Journal (November 17, 2014). The decision follows on the heels of a similar decision by Pearson, previously…
Texas
Texas State Board of Education must still vote on adopting the revised textbooks
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Publishers have agreed to correct or remove inaccurate passages promoting climate change…
Texas
"Climate scientists can breathe a bit easier," the National Journal (November 13, 2014) reports. "Pearson Education — the largest educational publisher in the world — has cut material from a proposed Texas social-studies textbook that cast doubt on the human causes of global warming."
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Texas
The pressure on the Texas board of education to require the correction of errors in the coverage of climate change in social studies textbooks presently under consideration continues. In a press conference on November 12, 2014, NCSE, the Texas Freedom Network, and Climate Parents charged that…
Texas
Writing in the Austin American-Statesman (November 6, 2014), Camille Parmesan and Alan I. Leshner called on the Texas state board of education to insist on the correction of scientifically inaccurate material about climate change in social studies textbooks currently under consideration for…