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Texas manager tested positive for cocaine in 2009 - Warren Tribune Chronicle

Washington said he told the commissioner's office and Rangers officials about using ... tell that he's a broken man from this one bad choice he made," Texas star Josh Hamilton said. Hamilton has a long history of drug abuse and was suspended for the ...

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Texas, Wake Forest trying to forget recent history - ESPN.com

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Perhaps Rick Barnes and Dino Gaudio should compare notes on how to pull a team out ... Wake Forest (19-10) met a similar fate in the ACC tournament, and the 83-62 loss to lowly Miami gave the Demon Deacons another burden to carry ...

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Texas school board tweaks its history books to the ... - Seattle Times

... they'll end up in other classrooms," said Fritz Fischer, chairman of the National Council for History Education, a group devoted to history teaching at the precollege level. "It's not a partisan issue; it's a good-history issue." Washington ...

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The Nation: Twisting Texas History - NPR News

The changes to the social studies curriculum recently approved by the conservative-dominated Texas Board of Education have attracted attention mainly because of how they may affect textbooks used in other states. Since Texas certifies texts centrally ...

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Texas History Curriculum Under Fire - CBS News

Historians criticized proposed revisions to the Texas social studies curriculum Tuesday, saying that many of the changes are historically inaccurate and that they would affect textbooks and classrooms far beyond the state's borders. The changes ...

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Texas Should Be Kicked Out of the Union - Huffingtonpost.com

Maybe the historians criticized them because the result isn't history but right-wing propaganda: The changes, which were preliminarily approved last week by the Texas board of education and are expected to be given final approval in May, will reach ...

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Excerpts From the New Texas History Textbooks - Politics Daily

The Texas Board of Education voted last Friday to add conservative values and historical interpretations to the statewide social studies curriculum. As Don McLeroy, a dentist who leads the dominant Christian conservative faction on the state board ...

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Radical views of far right being pushed - Corpus Christi Caller

But members of the conservative majority ran roughshod over any objections to their views on what should be taught in classrooms about Texas and U.S. history, economics and social studies. Texas students will be losers if the curriculum standards get ...

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Dear Texas: Please shut up. Sincerely, History - San Francisco Chronicle

Do you know what else? America was wholly victorious in Vietnam. It's a fact! Kicked some serious enemy butt! Mission accomplished! Sure it was a little bumpy for awhile, but President Nixon, that great and wronged American hero, put us on the ...

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Twisting History in Texas - Nation

Most comment on the content of the new standards has focused on the mandate that high school students learn about leading conservative figures and institutions of the 1980s and '90s, specifically Phyllis Schlafly, the Moral Majority, the Heritage ...

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History of Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The written history of Texas begins in 1519, when the region was found to be populated by various Indian tribes. Alonso Alvarez de Pineda explored the northern Gulf Coast.

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Texas Timeline (Key Events in early Texas)
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