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• Texas School Board Decides Not to Have Academics Fact-Check Textbooks
• Abraham Lincoln Was a Science Champion, Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Says
• Head of Maryland college agrees to address black protesters' demands
• Colleges update mascots, mottos, amid pressure from students
• Texas: We don't need academics to fact-check our textbooks
• Slow U.S. tuition growth is 'new normal' for higher education: Moody's

Texas School Board Decides Not to Have Academics Fact-Check Textbooks Posted: 19 Nov 2015 01:34 PM PST School textbooks may not contain the most captivating accounts of history, but parents, students, and educators alike typically expect them to be accurate. The Texas Board of Education ruled 8–7 against establishing a panel of state university academics to pore over textbooks used in public schools to check for factual errors, the Dallas Morning News reports. Critics say that some of these editors do not have expertise in academia and allow political and religious biases to make their way into education materials, according to the Morning News.

Abraham Lincoln Was a Science Champion, Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Posted: 19 Nov 2015 11:41 AM PST Abraham Lincoln is best known for abolishing slavery and keeping the United States together through the Civil War, but he also helped the country become the scientific and engineering powerhouse we know today. For example, Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862, creating a system of land-grant colleges and universities that revolutionized higher education in the United States, notes famed astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson. "Known also as the people's colleges, they were conceived with the idea that they would provide practical knowledge and science in a developing democratic republic," Tyson, the director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium in New York City, writes in an editorial that appeared online today (Nov. 19) in the journal Science.

Head of Maryland college agrees to address black protesters' demands Posted: 19 Nov 2015 08:29 AM PST Interim President Timothy Chandler reviewed the demands brought by 40 to 50 students for about nine hours before he signed and committed to working toward the goals, spokeswoman Gay Pinder said. Pinder said that 4 percent of Towson's tenure-track faculty is black. Towson has about 19,000 undergraduate students, 17 percent of them black, according to the CollegeData higher education website.

Colleges update mascots, mottos, amid pressure from students Posted: 19 Nov 2015 07:27 AM PST BOSTON (AP) — Amherst College has turned on its mascot. Georgetown University is renaming buildings. Union College has a new motto.

Texas: We don't need academics to fact-check our textbooks Posted: 19 Nov 2015 05:55 AM PST The Texas Board of Education rejected a measure Wednesday that would require university experts to fact-check the state's textbooks in public schools. "Through grammatical manipulation, the textbook authors obscure the role of slave owners in the institution of slavery," she says.

Slow U.S. tuition growth is 'new normal' for higher education: Moody's Posted: 18 Nov 2015 09:35 PM PST Higher education institutions suffered the weakest tuition growth in the history of Moody's survey last year. Such sluggishness "appears to be the 'new normal,'" reported Moody's, which is predicting another year of tuition revenue growth near levels of inflation, approximately 2 percent. Almost two-thirds of public universities will see tuition growth under 3 percent, in part because of state-imposed limits to keep tuition low and student enrollments that are either flat or declining.

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