FD is not as worried as some people are by the strange decisions being made by the Texas schoolboard. \u00a0As Mr. FD said the other day, in many ways, Texas is simply returning to the the kind of jingoistic textbooks we had in the 1950s — and many of us were quite capable of seeing through those, even in grade school.<\/p>\n
Also, FD thinks that teachers are more important than the books themselves. \u00a0What will Texas teachers do with these books? \u00a0At least some of them will help their students become “resisting readers<\/a>” (in Judith Fetterley’s classic phrase), and some will be clear about what students “need for the test” and what they need for life. \u00a0Lots of students won’t bother to read the books, and as an Iowa State political science prof <\/a>pointed out\u00a0recently, students usually have many more interesting sources of information than the guy at the front of the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FD is not as worried as some people are by the strange decisions being made by the Texas schoolboard. \u00a0As Mr. FD said the other day, in many ways, Texas is simply returning to the the kind of jingoistic textbooks we had in the 1950s — and many of us were quite capable of seeing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}