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For those reading the @nytimes piece on how politics influences textbooks in TX and CA (see next tweet for link), this @RDispatches piece from last year shows how Christian nationalism skews textbook coverage of religion in TX textbooks 1/3 rewire.news/religion-dispa…
@nytimes @RDispatches 2/3 Here's the link to that @nytimes piece, by @DanaGoldstein nytimes.com/interactive/20…
@nytimes @RDispatches @DanaGoldstein 3/3 And here's a longer, scholarly study of the problem, in which I argue that the TX social studies curriculum does not offer balanced coverage of world religions, largely b/c of intervention by conservative members of the TX State Board of Education. bakerinstitute.org/media/files/fi…
@nytimes @RDispatches * should be "skews coverage of religion in TX textbooks" 🤦‍♀️
@nytimes @RDispatches @DanaGoldstein BTW (and FWIW), my very first piece for @TexasObserver, back in 2015, discussed Christian nationalist influence on TX social studies textbooks texasobserver.org/heres-the-frin…
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