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charchew

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Textbook selection for public schools in Texas is important to the rest of the country because _____.
 
  a. Texas adopts much higher standards for textbooks than other states do
 b. the size of the Texas adoption means that textbooks written for the Texas public school market are pushed to other states around the country
  c. Texas's conservative curriculum standards, demonstrated in Texas textbooks, are pushed to other states around the country
  d. the size of the Texas adoption means that textbooks written for the Texas public school market are pushed to other states around the country; and Texas's conservative curriculum standards, demonstrated in Texas textbooks, are pushed to other states around the country
  e. all of these

Question 2

In 2010, the Texas State Board of Education made headlines for pushing changes to the social science curriculum, including _____.
 
  a. downplaying the role of Thomas Jefferson among the founding fathers
  b. mandating emphasis on the separation of church and state
  c. downplaying the threat of communism during the Cold War
  d. imposing a liberal bias on the curriculum
  e. removing Sam Houston from Texas history texts



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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