Another Strikeout for Mexican-American Studies in Texas
After another proposed textbook bites the dust, some are questioning the State Board of Education’s commitment to Mexican-American Studies.
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David R. Brockman, Ph.D., a religious studies scholar and Christian theologian, is a nonresident scholar in the Religion and Public Policy Program at Rice University's Baker Institute. He also teaches at Brite Divinity School, Southern Methodist University and Texas Christian University. He is the author of Dialectical Democracy through Christian Thought: Individualism, Relationalism, and American Politics.
After another proposed textbook bites the dust, some are questioning the State Board of Education’s commitment to Mexican-American Studies.
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