Texas critical thinking
True: what politifact got wrong about the gop and critical checking the fact richard whittaker, 8:00am, sat. 11, in a piece called "says texas gop platform calls for end to teaching 'critical thinking' in public schools", politifact cast its beady eye over a new york times column by gail collins. The subject was the republican party of texas platform, and claims that the gop explicitly opposes critical thinking.
Here's the section in question:Knowledge-based education – we oppose the teaching of higher order thinking skills (hots) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of outcome-based education (obe) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental exactly politifact went after collins, whose column was mostly about ted cruz's golf-related conspiracy theories, evades understanding. Their 'fact checking' concentrated on outcome based education, a educational thinking championed by sociologist bill spady. Because, you know, , and any time the texas gop talks about fixed beliefs, that seems to inevitably lead to creationism in science classes.
If you actually teach real critical thinking – of the kind that the founding fathers and their fellow sons of the enlightenment would support – than you understand the world better. Hey, if it's good enough for martin luther, it's good enough for a texas classroom. S hard not to ignore the dramatic irony of politifact – the self-appointed arbiter of truth through critical thinking – getting caught in this discussion.
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Miami herald columnist leonard pitts wrote july 21: "the texas gop has set itself explicitly against teaching children to be critical thinkers. American-statesman opinion columnist ken herman reported july 21 that the party’s deputy executive director, chris elam, told him the platform subcommittee did not intend to indicate that the party opposed critical thinking began our research by trying to contact collins but did not hear from her. Her column gives no information about her claim beyond that single pulled the complete wording of the "knowledge-based education" plank from the 2012 platform:We oppose the teaching of higher order thinking skills (hots) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of outcome-based education (obe) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental , we contacted elam, who told us by email that party chairman steve munisteri had given a good explanation in a july 24 interview with austin’s eri told kvue, "the platform plank is against a specific type of teaching called 'outcome-based education.
The reason why critical thinking is mentioned is some places try to disguise the program of outcome-based education and just re-label it as 'critical thinking. S supported by the wording in the ing the lead of a july 6, 2012, chronicle of higher education blog post on the texas platform fracas, we looked back to the 2010 platform. Its "knowledge-based education" plank said, "the primary purpose of public schools is to teach critical thinking skills, reading, writing, arithmetic, phonics, history, science, and character … we oppose outcome-based education (obe) and similar programs.
Platforms support critical thinking when it comes to "controversial theories" such as evolution, which "should be taught as challengeable scientific theories ... We set out to see if we could determine whether opposing outcome-based education is also, de facto, opposing critical thinking in the larger debate over outcome-based education caught fire in the 1990s as outcome-based curricula were installed in u. In the lexis newspaper archive and on the web, we saw a dozen news stories and opinion pieces from as many states -- texas included -- describing public concern about the new nts said the outcome-based approach was antithetical to critical thinking.
They claimed it "dumbed down" curricula and influenced students to adopt liberal attitudes because the "outcome" of their studies was predetermined by ters claimed it encouraged -- in fact, taught -- critical thinking. A divide remains between the "obe teaches kids to think" side and the "obe suppresses thinking" didn’t find allusions to "critical thinking skills" being used as a code phrase for obe, but did note that a feb. Those lights, collins’ statement is half this statement:Published: saturday, august 11th, 2012 at 6:00 ched by: sue by: john new york times, column by gail collins, "for god, texas and golf," aug.
1, american-statesman, column by ken herman, "know your platforms," july 21, ican party of texas 2012 -tv austin news story, "texas gop chair explains controversial 'critical thinking' platform language," july 24, cle of higher education, blog post "what were they thinking? July 6, ican party of texas 2010 worth star-telegram news story, "state's curriculum rewrite criticized at meeting," oct. If you send us a comment, we'll assume you don't mind us publishing it unless you tell us the texas all pants on fire all false rick perry's john cornyn's filesee lloyd doggett's all truth-o-meter rulings from the state up to date with politifact a widget for your the austin 1, 2012 @ 11:19 terrifying texas gop platform.
However, i am so distressed by the 2012 platform released by the texas republican party that i find it impossible not to comment. It is anything but document (available here) has already made headlines with the portion that opposes the “teaching of higher order thinking skills” and “critical thinking skills. First off, do they really and truly believe that teachers and school boards across the state of texas are designing curricula specifically aimed at training children to challenge their parents?
Second, do you know which values and concepts are rejected in the absence of higher order and critical thinking? Even a cursory reading of their platform makes it very clear that this is precisely what texas republicans believe and what those concepts and values are. This begs the question, who is really aiming to force their beliefs on our children, texas schools or texas republicans?
Thus, contrary to the texas gop’s assertion, there are programs that both add to costs and increase educational achievement. Surely the texas gop is not arguing that higher salaries would not tend to attract higher quality teachers or that funds for training and apprenticeship would not be well spent? A cynic might be tempted to conclude that the real goal of the texas republican party is simply to find a means of circumventing article vii of the texas constitution, requiring the state to “establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools” (wherein, according to the texas supreme court in edgewood isd vs.
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