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Source: The Pine Log, 28th January 2010
Earlier this month the Texas State Board of Education agreed to postpone debate over what information will go in high school history textbooks until this March. These changes are grabbing the attention of the local and national media because the proposed ideas would rewrite history with a huge slant to the right, leaving out topics such as Sen. Edward Kennedy, Hispanic civil-rights groups and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Instead of learning about liberal and minority-rights groups, students will learn about primarily conservative groups from the late twentieth century including the National Rifle Association and the Moral Majority. Even more ridiculous was the proposal by one of the board members to remove hip-hop from the history books. However, according to the Dallas Morning News, the proposal was shot down and hip-hop, rock 'n' roll, the Beat Generation and the Chicano Mural Movement will be allowed to remain in the history books as examples of cultural movements in the United States.
