Food For Thought Lecture Series - Moved to 19th

Starts
Wednesday, February 17th 2010

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The FFT lecture for this month will be the Hot Science Cool Talks lecture on the 19th.

For more details see here: http://www.meetup.com/cfiaustin/calendar/12210172/


Food For Thought Lecture Series - How the SBOE plans to kill the social studies curriculum

Starts
Wednesday, January 20th 2010 at 7:00 pm
Location
American Legion Post 76 - 2201 Veteran's Drive Austin, TX 78703

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"How the SBOE plans to kill the social studies curriculum"

The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) has appointed “experts” lacking relevant [or any] academic credentials to develop new standards for social studies courses taught in public schools. Among their recommendations was to claim that both Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall were not important enough to be included in state standards.