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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2012 TX GOP platform rejected teaching "critical thinking" in schools. Saves DRUMPF work.
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[font size=5]Texas GOP rejects critical thinking skills. Really.[/font]
By Valerie Strauss July 9, 2012
In the you-cant-make-up-this-stuff department, heres what the Republican Party of Texas wrote into its 2012 platform as part of the section on education:
Knowledge-Based Education We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the students fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority. ....
It opposes, among other things, early childhood education, sex education, and multicultural education, but supports school subjects with emphasis on the Judeo-Christian principles upon which America was founded. ....
It should be noted that after the plank in the platform was ridiculed, Texas GOP Communications Director Chris Elam told TPM.com that it was all a big mistake and that opposition to critical thinking wasnt supposed to be included. It cant be easily removed, he said, because the platform had been approved by a party convention and any changes would also have to go through the same process. That clears things up.
You can see Stephen Colberts hilarious take on this episode by clicking here. ....
... Willingham defines critical thinking this way: Critical thinking consists of seeing both sides of an issue, being open to new evidence that disconfirms your ideas, reasoning dispassionately, demanding that claims be backed by evidence, deducing and inferring conclusions from available facts, solving problems, and so forth. Then too, there are specific types of critical thinking that are characteristic of different subject matter: Thats what we mean when we refer to thinking like a scientist or thinking like a historian. ....
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2012 TX GOP platform rejected teaching "critical thinking" in schools. Saves DRUMPF work. (Original Post)
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Xipe Totec
(43,893 posts)1. There's a minimal level of ‘critical thinking’ skills required to understand why they're important
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)2. They are trying to change what children believe in? Those monsters want to kill Santa!!!