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Texas GOP rejects ‘critical thinking’ skills. Really. - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
Never been happier to be from Minnesota, that's all I'm sayin.
In the you-cant-make-up-this-stuff department, heres what the Republican Party of Texas wrote into its 2012 platform as part of the section on education:
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 students fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
Yes, you read that right. The party opposes the teaching of higher order thinking skills because it believes the purpose is to challenge a students fixed beliefs and undermine parental authority.
It opposes, among other things, early childhood education, sex education, and multicultural education, but supports school subjects with emphasis on the Judeo-Christian principles upon which America was founded.
Never been happier to be from Minnesota, that's all I'm sayin.