they treat nonjudgmentally, minimize, sugarcoat or censor in islam. erica mel sign reporter for the houston chronicle. good morning. good morning. this is a major assertion to make. how did they back up what they call this anti-christian sentiment. and did they tally up references to each religion as positive or negative? what was their fact they presented here? they did. they actually counted the number of lines in some old textbooks that used to be used in texas classrooms. though critics of the resolution say the supporters didn t do their fact-checking, they tried to delay the vote but time after time that failed. as you said it was a very narrow 7-6 vote in favor of the resolution. i want to pick up on what you said. used to use. old textbooks. is that what s behind this? are they looking backward right now? yes. they looked at three old history textbooks that were used in texas classrooms from 1999 to
during a summit, parents, teachers and students will come together with leaders in politics and business to discuss the challenges and opportunities in education today. it officially starts tomorrow with teacher town hall. that s hosted by brian williams. he ll be live right here on msnbc from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. eastern. we ll give you a live sneak peek out there at 11:30 eastern. plus check out our website, educationnation.com. find out where your school ranks nationally and in your state. also take a quiz with your child about learning. that s at educationnation.com. a controversial resolution passed by the texas school board yesterday ames to curtail what it calls a pro-islamic and anti-christian bias in textbooks. the socially conservative board voted narrowly to win this in favor of the resolution which calls on future textbooks to put more focus on christianity. the resolution accuses publishers of indicting christianity for the same practices. for example, sexism, slavery, per
2002. but some of the board members also went back and looked at current textbooks and said they suspect that some of the same problems are in the current books. okay. well, anyway, suspecting that which is current, there is one example given by the resolution that reads in one stance, devoting 120 student text lines to christian beliefs, practices and holy writings but 248, more than twice as many, to those are islam. will this be enacted in the future by literally counting words? is that what this is going to come to? it s hard to say. this isn t a legally binding resolution. it s basicallily just a strong warning to textbook companies from one of their largest markets. whether they are going to nitpick line by line, that seems difficult to do. we ll have to wait and see. real quickly, texes say huge market. does this mean because of the power they have and the sheer volume of textbooks, there were