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By AP | March 17, 2010 - 5:59 am - Posted in History, Politics, Satire

Stephen discusses the Texas Board of Education’s review of its social studies curriculum and textbook standards with a proper historian. The Texas BOE voted last Friday to, among other things, removing Thomas Jefferson from the course requirements pertaining to the Enlightenment, replacing the Founding Father with John Calvin.

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I caught this last night as I was wrapping up my latest Care2.com post on the same subject ~ Texas BOE Demotes Jefferson, Omits Separation of Church and State from Textbook Standards

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