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• Texas textbook vote highlights disputes over US history – and how to teach it
• True Defectives: The Men Who Sterilized Carrie Buck
• College students on Peninsula hold vigil for fallen in Paris attacks

Texas textbook vote highlights disputes over US history – and how to teach it Posted: 20 Nov 2015 11:57 AM PST Texas education officials nixed a proposal to let university experts check state textbooks for factual errors – reviving a long-simmering dispute over ideological bias in how history and science are taught in public schools. Some Texas conservatives applauded the state Board of Education's 8 to 7 decision Wednesday to stand by its current process, which relies on citizen panels to vet textbooks. Others, however, say the vote's results are another example of how the nation's increasingly polarized ideologies are affecting school curricula. "This debate is almost entirely driven by ideology, as history is inherently political," writes Brad Cartwright, director of the University of Texas at El Paso Center for History Teaching & Learning, in an e-mail.

True Defectives: The Men Who Sterilized Carrie Buck Posted: 20 Nov 2015 12:00 AM PST Buck v. Bell, the 1927 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court approved of sterilizing "imbeciles," is even worse than you think.

College students on Peninsula hold vigil for fallen in Paris attacks Posted: 19 Nov 2015 01:57 AM PST A hundred people from all different religions united in the Bay Area for a peaceful candlelight vigil for the victims of the Paris attacks.

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